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Louis Block was born in December 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up and went to school there. He lost his mother at...

[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The...

Archie Kelley had done very well in high school and had no academic problems at all [Annotator's Note: while attending...

On 27 November [Annotator's Note: 27 November 1941], Robert Kinzler said, Hawaii went on an island-wide alert against...

Betty Soskin was born in September 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. She was invited to be a panelist at The National WWII...

William Curtis did not keep up with the other men on his boat after the war except the boatswain’s mate. He worked at a...

Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 379th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division as a...

Mark Maynard traveled by train from New London, Connecticut to Mare Island which was a replacement depot for submarine...

Dale Smith was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine repair and supply ship. It was big and had about 800...

Marvin Westcott spent time aboard the USS Balch (DD-363) fighting the Japanese invasion of Alaska. There was no fleet...

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was born in April 1923 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana...

Minnie Marcella Oleskey Shimp was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in November 1923], but grew up in...

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