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Richard Miralles was born in July 1924 in Anderson, California. He was an orphan. His parents separated. He lived with...

Francis Borrell's first cruise was in the Atlantic Ocean. Borrell believes Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator...

Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...

A few days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Joseph DeMott saw the devastation. With five battleships sunk or...

Chester J. Butcher was resting and listening to the radio [Annotator's Note: at the United States Military Academy in...

Whiney Harris was born in August 1912 in Seattle, Washington. He attended the University of Washington and the...

Norman Johnson was born on Staten Island, New York on 16 January 1925. His father was an electrician. In the afternoons...

John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

John Noack lived in Port Arthur, Texas before the war. Once in a while a barnstormer would come through with a plane...

Walter Knapps was born in February 1921 in New Roads, Louisiana. His mother died in a house fire when he was six years...

Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Charles Kneflin what his personal reaction was to the Japanese attack on Pearl...

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