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[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...

Lavenia Breaux wanted to go in the service after Pearl Harbor. She always had a dream of traveling and realized the...

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

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

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

Royce Jarrell was born in November 1924 and grew up in DeRidder, Louisiana. He was 17 years old and attending...

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

Vincent Pale was in Philadelphia when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He and some friends decided to...

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

Alfred Taddeo is from Portland, Oregon. While there with a group of classmates at the University of Portland Oregon [...

David Fisher was born in December 1925 in Evangeline, Louisiana and grew up in Jennings, Louisiana where his family...

Joseph Daquarna was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana in May 1928. His father owned a grocery store and barroom. The family...

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