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Lorraine Achee could not believe the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and she did not really understand it. They had...

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

Norris Waddill was born in Coryell County in Ireland, Texas in 1922 and grew up on his grandfather's ranch. He had a...

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

Mitchell Zimmer and his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Piper (SS-409)] returned to Pearl Harbor en route to the Panama...

During the war years, Diana Belliard was in the United States. She lived in Chicago until 1940 then left to go to...

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

After V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Albert Reale spent another six months in the...

Anthony Varuso grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana where his father had a food store. As a child, Varuso delivered...

After getting the alert prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor that Hawaii may be invaded by sea, Clarence Herbert...

Charles Walker was born on a farm near Sumner, Georgia. When you live on a farm family, everybody works. He did not...

Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

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