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As a kid, Walter Oka used to hang around on the pier, selling newspapers and sundries to the sailors. He collected...

Bernard Peters was born in March 1923 in Oakland, Oregon. He had two older brothers and two younger sisters. His father...

Louis Conter was located between the USS Arizona (BB-39)'s turrets three and four during the attack. With the terrible...

Leroy Redmond was born in June 1922 in Newark, New Jersey. It was a nice town. He was the third son. The Great...

Joseph Richard went to T-Unit [Annotator's Note : Task Unit; unit or formation that works on a single defined task or...

Wayne O. Hill was born in Spirit Lake, Idaho in August 1923. His father worked in a logging village as a railroad man....

Shortly before colors [Annotator's Note: eight o'clock in the morning] on 7 December 1941, Firman Balza was standing on...

Ewalt "Walt" Shatz was assigned to the USS Patterson (DD-392) docked in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Joseph Blouin was born in March 1923 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He grew up there. He had a brother who was coming home...

Benjamin Troemel started training on seaplanes, and said he knew more about the sea than he did about planes in the...

The Japanese attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] started at five...

Having escaped the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Oklahoma (BB-37)] as she capsized, Richard Schlink survived the day...

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