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Andrew George Jameson heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...
Paul Wilson had moved to north Oklahoma City [Annotator's Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] when Pearl Harbor happened [...
Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams was in high school in 1941 in Ozona [Annotator's Note: Ozona, Texas]. They were shocked [...
Richard O'Hara and his father were in the kitchen and heard the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...
John T. "Jack" Race had to go through training to become an officer and to take a flight test to qualify him for a...
Ricardo R. Rondinelli was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in April 1924. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note:...
Jerome "Jerry" Riga graduated from high school and went to work soon afterwards. It was not long before the draft came...
Chester J. Butcher was resting and listening to the radio [Annotator's Note: at the United States Military Academy in...
Floyd Annas had always wanted to fly and enlisting in the Army Air Corps was a way to do it. He was sent to Miami Beach...
Darrell Welch went to El Paso [Annotator's Note: El Paso, Texas] to get his physical. He went to Fort Bliss [Annotator'...
Melvin Abadie was born on the Evergreen Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana in June 1925. He spent the first eight years...
Lyle Bird was born in May 1926 in Bakersfield, California and grew up in Oakland, California. Bird was one of three...
Walter Bala was born Walter Baloski in September 1923 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. His parents were Polish...
Robert Joseph Blatnik was born in Cleveland, Ohio in February 1920. He was the fifth of sixth children with two...
Earl Ervin Clark was born in July 1919 in Londonderry, Vermont. He grew up during the Great Depression and struggled...
After World War 2, Willard Haul Coop re-enlisted and went to Korea for one year during the Korean War [Annotator's Note...
When Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores got out of the Army, he still had a dream of being an officer. There was a...
Subic Bay [Annotator's Note: Subic Bay, Philippines] was a nice Naval establishment before it was all lost [Annotator's...
James Mather joined the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note: V-5 US Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1939 to 1943] and flew...
John Ream remembers that if anyone kept a diary, the FBI [Annotator’s Note: Federal Bureau of Investigation] would...
After the war, Floyd Horne got into investigations. This was in 1946. He got out of the service as a First Lieutenant....
Paul Gibfried does not think he would have served if he had not been drafted. He did love being in the Navy. His first...
By the end of the war, William Sturman was a Third Class Petty Officer. He used the G.I. Bill to attend New Mexico...
Cosmo Uttero loaded onto a ship and in three days he was in Glasgow, Scotland [Annotator's Note: in November 1943]....
John "Jack" Raquepau got called to go to Preflight School in early November 1942. He went to boot camp which was called...
Philip Schultz went through basic training like any other new recruit. Subsequently, he sailed to England and was there...
Alfred Alvarez was about 16 years old when Pearl Harbor happened [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...
Roger Bertolini served in the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. He did his basic training at Camp...
James Nannini was born in Chicago, Illinois in July 1923. His father and mother were both Italian immigrants who left...
[Annotator's Note: The video is scrambled for the first ten seconds of the interview. There is a minute and a half of...
Frederick Freeman was born in Saint Louis County in Kirkwood [Annotator's Note: Kirkwood, Missouri] in May 1925. His...
Dominic Della Vedova was born in a coal mining camp called Bear Creek west of Ottumwa, Iowa in June 1919. His father...
Aristide "A.D." Durio was born in Sunset, Louisiana in July 1926 and grew up there. His father worked in rice fields,...
Daniel Morisak was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania in January 1921 and was raised in Akron, Ohio with three brothers. He...
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts mid-sentence.] Alice Howie was born in February 1925 in Barrineau Park, Florida...
Wilfred Lawrence Weseman grew up during the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a global...

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