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Medary G. Boudreaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in June 1921. Prior to the war, he attended Commercial High...

During his high school years, Randolph Trappey excelled in his studies at the all-boy, highly disciplined private...

Carl Platkin was in military school on Pearl Harbor day [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

At 16, Charles Davis was one of 1,200 men, including his brother, a Marine, who boarded the USS Helena (CL-50) on New...

[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Bette C. Horstman...

John Sanford Gilman was born in Rochester, New York in November 1918. He grew up with an older brother and twin sister...

Russell Engel was born in Vesta, Minnesota, the son of a farmer who left the farm to work in oil refineries in Caspar,...

Herbert W. Ridyard was in high school when he listened to President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...

Jack A. Gillis was drafted into the Army and went into the Army Air Corps. He was shipped to Los Angeles [Annotator's...

Joseph Brannan was born in Gillett, Arkansas in 1922. Raised during the Great Depression, his father had a business in...

Returning to questions about his prewar life, Jerome Fatora said that the Great Depression was a difficult time, but...

All four Japanese carriers were sunk during the Battle of Midway. The Japanese plan had been to draw the American...

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