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Clyde Hymel was born in Garyville, Louisiana in April 1926, and had fun growing up there. His father was a supervisor...

Robert Erskine Hendrick was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. He had one younger sister. His father served 30 years in...

Before the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: that Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Jack Skaggs heard about Pearl Harbor on Monday morning, 8 December 1941. [Annotator's Note: Wake Island is west of, and...

[Annotators Note: Giles Bacon enlisted in the USMC in January 1939. He was assigned as a brig guard at Pearl Harbor and...

Sol Lazinger was in the Bronx [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York], New York...

Darrel D. Gust was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in November 1921. His mother died when he was 11 years old, and, at...

[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] The war gave Malcolm Louis Holleman a...

Robert Lowe was born in Hutton, Louisiana in July 1922. He worked his way through high school during the Great...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Patrick Zilliacus if he had a good luck prayer for when his submarine was being...

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