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Trinidad Ledesma was born in November 1924 in Downey, California. His parents did not speak English. They only spoke...

Jack Linscott was 16 years old when the war broke out. He did not know there was something going on in the Pacific. The...

Martin Carmody did his flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas. When he graduated nine months later he was sent to San...

Dr. Robert Beynon was born in August 1924 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1942 and enlisted in the Navy....

Lowell Hughes was stationed at Camp Barkeley near Abilene, Texas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. A supply...

Sterling Cale was on night duty at the shipyard dispensary in the Navy yard before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He had...

Jack A. Gillis was drafted into the Army and went into the Army Air Corps. He was shipped to Los Angeles [Annotator's...

Joseph Massey was born in September 1925 in Argo, Alabama. He had five brothers and he was the youngest. There were...

Edward Stone realized that the United States was not prepared for war when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. He saw...

Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...

Lewis M. Lee, Sr. was assigned to one of the requisitioned merchant ships, and was hauling troops to Midway and other...

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

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