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Leon Dixon can only remember that it was 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

When the war broke out [Annotator's Note: Downs is referring to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...

Peter Gallo was in the construction division in the CCC [Annotator's Note: Civilian Conservation Corps] before going...

Hugh Ettinger was born in May 1926 in Watertown, New York. His father worked as a civil engineer, and they lived on...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was born February 1924 in Memphis, Tennessee. His family was in the bakery and restaurant...

Jacqueline Bishop was born in March 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was an electrician. During the Depression [...

The engines of the USS Perch (SS-176) were put back together, and Robert Lents said that the morning after the attack...

Theodore Robert Tanner was born in Portland, Oregon in December 1920. He had one younger sister, born two years after...

Charles Brightman Skinner was aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading...

Courtland Claus remembers his cousin dropped by for a military visit. The radio was on in the next room over. They...

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