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[Annotator’s Note: There is a clock ticking in the background throughout this segment.] Robert J. Hutchings was born in...

Edward Stone was aboard the Pyro [Annotator's Note: USS Pyro (AE-1)] and found the ship had good cooks. That was...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

Returning to his prewar life, Holly Rees remembered when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Joseph A. Vater was born in March 1917, in Pittsburgh [Annotator's Note: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into...

Willis Broussard was born in May 1927 in Lafayette, Louisiana. His family had a small farm which he helped work with...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...

In the months leading up to the United States' entry into the war, the country was isolationist. Fredrick Hollis was...

Shirley Guidry was born in Rayne, Louisiana in August 1925. When he was 15 years old, he moved to New Orleans [...

Walter Henry Barton’s job with his regiment [Annotator’s Note: Barton was a member of Cannon Company, 361st Infantry...

Robert Fitz was born in March 1925 in South Bridge, Massachusetts, the youngest of four children. He was very young...

Joseph Townsend went to the sick bay in Pearl [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]. Townsend was x-rayed and they...

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