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Frederick Jenkins was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He grew up in the fields. His father was a college...

Oran Harris was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was returning from Sunday school when a man called out...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

When Glynn G. Raby Jr. first considered enlisting, he wanted to join the Air Corps. He was young, and aviation was...

Daniel Chester was born in February 1925 in Lakewood, Ohio, went through grammar and high school there, and lived in a...

Joseph Richard feels that the war means more now to the younger generation than it did after he left it. He meets kids...

Shiyuza Hayashi is Japanese-American. He was born in America and did not know what Japan was like. His parents had...

His service as a Nisei [Annotator's Note: first generation Japanese-American] soldier was important to Walter Oka...

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

Robert Marovelli clearly remembers being in the bathtub on 7 December 1941, when the announcement came over the radio...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

At Pearl Harbor, Russell Clay's battle station was on the 1.1 inch pom-pom guns. [Annotator's Note: Clay was a crewman...

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