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Robert Rans was born in Chicago, Illinois in April 1921. Family life was mostly normal until the war started. He worked...

Matthew A. Reluga was playing football and got the notice that Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the...

George Allen says he was part of something that worked out well. He was worried that we [Annotator's Note: the United...

Courtland Claus remembers his cousin dropped by for a military visit. The radio was on in the next room over. They...

[Annotator’s Note: A dog panting is audible in the background throughout segment.] William Batty was born in December...

M. Edward Melton was born in Henderson, Kentucky in June 1925. He had a happy childhood. They had no money, but neither...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was born February 1924 in Memphis, Tennessee. His family was in the bakery and restaurant...

Charles Womack was born in October 1922 and grew up in McComb, Mississippi. His parents were divorced and his father...

Walter Bud Gafford feels many young people do not know about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...

Richard Micklich recalls the relief and happiness he felt on VE Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

Oral History