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[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...

Marvin Westcott was aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) while she performed escort duty for the aircraft USS Enterprise (CV-6...

Merlin C. Smith was born in December 1925 in Baker, Louisiana. He had had two brothers and one sister. The family lived...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

John Kerner heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while he was walking down the street and overheard it. He and...

Blanchard was born in Yonkers, New York. He moved around quite a bit as an employee of General Motors.He came from a...

Ed Rendelman was born in 1919 in Detroit, Michigan. His family moved to southern Illinois six weeks after he was born...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Wallace Yip, Sr. what it felt like to hear the news of the Japanese attack on...

Waldeman Czaban was glad to be out of service, but when Korea started he joined the Army Reserves. He had earned a...

John Howland had taken flight courses and was ready to join the Air Force but was restricted from becoming a pilot...

Carl Beck joined the Army at 17 in November 1942. He was born in 1925. He had been working with his father during the...

Theodore Finkbeiner was the middle child between a brother and sister. He had just started Northeast Junior College [...

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