Reaction to Pearl Harbor

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Sam L. Miller was born in September 1926 and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was an only child because his mother could...
[Annotator's Note: Video and sound freeze throughout this clip.] Leo Bednarczyk was born in Chicago, Illinois in June...
[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Bette C. Horstman...
Sullivan Tindal was born in September 1925 in Hampton [Annotator's Note: Hampton, South Carolina]. He grew up on a...
John Langston Harrison, Jr. was born in December 1920 in Topeka, Kansas. He was raised in Osage City, Kansas and Omaha...
Bob Bartlett was born in April 1925 in Binghamton, New York and grew up in Johnson City, New York. He had one older...
Robert Dannehl was born in Iroquois County, Illinois in September 1926. He was the ninth child of 11 children. He knew...
Leanne Blinzler Noe was born in June 1933 in San Francisco, California, but grew up in the Philippines. Her parents met...
Thomas J. Bostick was born in October 1923 in Laurinburg, North Carolina. His parents, both sharecroppers, traveled...
Glen Kuskie was born in February 1924 on a dairy farm in Lincoln, Nebraska. When his family moved to town, his dad...
Robert Rupp liked the military. He decided while he was in school that if he was going to war, he would rather be an...
Matthew Cornelia was born in July 1918 and raised in Rochester, New York. His parents were both born in Ireland. At a...
Robert Geller was born in July 1922 and grew up in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York]. Geller’s...
Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...
Elroy Gambino was born in March 1925 in the Irish Channel [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana]. He grew up in...
Harvey Mittleman was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York City, New York] in May 1925. Mittleman and his...
[Annotator's Note: There is a background noise in the video.] In March 1923, Marvin Raymond Graham was born in New York...
Marilyn Strelow Groel was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1924 and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. Groel moved to...
Richard Guthrie was born in November 1933 at the Quantico Marine Corps Air Station in Quantico, Virginia. His father...
Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...
David R. Saunders was born in December 1922 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. His father was a...
David Hanning was born in May 1927 in Saranac Lake, New York. His mother, a nurse from Montreal [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator’s Note: Video goes black at 0:11:11.000 – 0:11:18.000.] Bruce Estes [Annotator’s Note: born in Atlanta,...
Robert Rineer was born in May 1922 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He grew up with a twin brother and two sisters. His...
Lorenzo Dow Crews was born in April 1924 in Memphis [Annotator's Note: Memphis, Tennessee]. His father worked as a...
Robert Wolf returned to the United States from the Philippines and went back to school. He graduated in 1949. He...
James Lee's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the attack itself [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on...
James Jordan is a contributing member to the Museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans,...
Robert Spint's most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard for him to say. He does not classify any of it. Some of...
The events of the war that really stand out in Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's memory are Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note:...
There was no way to avoid the war. Japan attacked a US territory [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...
After joining the Coast Guard [Annotator’s Note: in 1944], Eileen Noll was sent to West Palm Beach [Annotator’s Note:...
Betty Peak had one year of college when the war started. She was 14 in October [Annotator's Note: 1937] and the war...
Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...
Albert Hatala was born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia. When he was about six months old his father moved to the United...
Returning to his prewar life, Holly Rees remembered when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

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