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When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...

Walter Trauner was born in 1925 in Boonton, New Jersey. His father had a bakery there. In 1929, his father sold the...

[Annotator’s Note: Outside noises can be heard throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was a Captain in the Navy and...

Hewitt Brian Gomez was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in January 1925. He recalled that he was playing football at a...

Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...

After Quintana went through boot camp, he came out feeling like he could fight anyone. They prepared the men in boot...

Mervin Jensen went to advanced training at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San...

Eugene Corson was born in March 1922 in Stanford, Connecticut. In 1936, his father got a job working on submarines in...

John Edward Campbell’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was machine guns waking him up during Pearl Harbor [...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. was in Hawaii until 1 December [Annotator's Note: 1 December 1941]. He was then transferred to...

His mother was surprised and excited when Moses Hogan came home on leave in 1943. After 30 days Moses went back to...

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