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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Donald Stratton recalls that none of the men were sleeping [Annotator's Note: when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor...

Four days prior to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

John Laborde was at home and sitting down to Sunday lunch when he heard of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was in ROTC [...

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