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Wallace G. Hurley was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1923. His mother and father divorced. His alcoholic father headed...

Norman Riggsby had a postwar career that was not related to his wartime experiences. His most memorable thing about...

James Sandoz was drafted in 1943. He was at school when Japan invaded [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Fred Arthur Balfour was born in August 1923, in Glens Falls, New York. He lived there until he was 12 years old. When...

Donald (Don) Malarkey tried to get into the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor but was turned down...

Dominick Sgobbo was born in October 1924 in East Harlem, New York City, New York. The fifth of eight children of...

Frank J. Waldeck was born in May 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended high school there before studying accounting and...

Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...

John McCarthy reached Pearl Harbor on his ship [Annotator’s Note: the repair ship USS Laertes (AR-20)]. They waited...

Warren Schmitt was born on 18 March 1921 in Hutchinson, Kansas. He had a younger brother named Gene who also served in...

Alois Kopp volunteered to go on the USS Houston (CA-30) in 1939 for deployment overseas. The ship was stationed in...

Floyd Dumas' father worked for the New York Central Railroad in Malone, New York as a boilermaker. Dumas had three...

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