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On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], John Edward...

Joel Varner was born in October 1923 in Senatobia, Mississippi. He attended high school and junior college there. He...

Richard N. Swanson was born in May 1922 in Des Moines, Iowa. When he was four years old, he moved to Mead, Nebraska and...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Robert Taylor...

On 7 December 1941, James Shoemaker was reading the Sunday comics, when he heard explosions. He went outside to see...

After graduating from radio school, Fred Bergeron, his older brother and their two friends, were all assigned to Task...

Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called...

George Allen was born in September 1925 in Alexandria, Louisiana. He had two sisters growing up there with him. His...

Jack Leaming was launched off the deck of the Enterprise on the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December...

Archie Kelley realized he was a raw ensign [Annotator's Note: lowest rank of commissioned officer in the US Navy and...

William Ebersole was born in September 1924 in Arcadia, Florida. He graduated from high school there in June 1942 then...

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