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Billy P. Bassett was born in December 1924 in Deep River, Iowa. He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa with his brother and two...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the Marines on Wake Island had heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

The events of the war that really stand out in Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's memory are Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note:...

George Mouton went to San Pedro, California, and reported aboard the USS Bosque (APA-135). From there he went to Pearl...

Grover Tyner was attending Mercer University [Annotator’s Note: in Macon, Georgia], but was in Forsyth, Georgia eating...

Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm graduated from high school and turned 18, but had no thoughts about going to college or...

Bane Cook was born in August 1925 in Illinois. He had an older brother. [Annotator’s Note: Cook talks about his brother...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...

Allen Ray Sibley almost stayed in the Army. He liked being a soldier. He is glad he did not stay in because he would...

Otis Kight and others volunteered for the salvage party to return to Yorktown [Annotator's Note: the USS Yorktown (CV-5...

Ernest L. Poulson recalled driving around with a friend and a couple of girls when he heard the news on the radio that...

Frank Pryor combated loaded his troopship in Hilo, Hawaii. The fleet came together at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

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