Reaction to Pearl Harbor

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Lehker, Roland Prewar Life
Roland Lehker was born in December 1925 in San Antonio, Texas. He enjoyed his childhood, being in the middle class. He...
Stewart, William Prewar Life
William Stewart is 88 years old. He was born in April 1929 in Glendale, California. He has one brother. His father...
Hayes, Raymond Prewar Life
Raymond Vincent Hayes was born in Providence, Rhode Island in July 1926. He had three brothers but his sister died in...
Burr, John Prewar Life
John Burr was born in Massachusetts in 1919. His family was in banking and brokerage. He lived in nice circumstances....
Bath, Garland Prewar Life
Garland Bath was born in January 1925 in Evans County, Georgia in a log cabin. He attended school there. He got his...
Zunno, Frank Prewar Life
Frank Zunno was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1923. He lived with his parents and one younger sister. During the Great...
Heinly, Robert Prewar Life
Robert Harvey Heinly was born in February 1924 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He remembers using ink wells in school. The...
Brown, Robert Prewar Life
Robert J. S. Brown was born in September 1924 in Lawndale, California. He had one younger brother. Brown remembers his...
LeBlanc, Andrew Prewar Life
Andrew Leblanc, Junior was born in July 1926 in McCall [Annotator's Note: McCall, Louisiana]. He had seven sisters and...
Hall, Clayton Prewar Life
Clayton Hall was born in Harvey County on a farm near Newton [Annotator's Note: Newton, Kansas]. His father was in...
Beal, Harold Prewar Life
Harold Beal was born in October 1925. He had two brothers and three sisters. He was driving a truck by the time he was...
Cook, Edward Prewar Life
Edward J. Cook was born in July 1925 in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in...
Ream, John Prewar Life
John Ream was born in November 1934 in the Philippine islands. His father was raised on a ranch in Idaho. He went to...
Kern, Blaine Prewar Life
Blaine Kern was born in Algiers, a suburb of New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. During the...
Sarnacki, Stella Prewar Life
Stella Sarnacki was born in Poland in January 1923. She was born on a farm. She is one of four children. Her father...
Cassady, William Prewar Life
William Cassady was born in June 1924 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family moved to New Orleans [Annotator’s Note...
Wicklund, John Prewar Life
When John Wicklund went for classification at Keesler Field [Annotator's Note: now Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi,...
Jerabek, Gene Prewar Life
Gene R. Jerabek was born in Winfield, Pennsylvania in December 1917. She grew up on a farm. They had electricity in the...
Curley, Walter Prewar Life
Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...
Gibbs, Robert Prewar Life
Robert S. Gibbs was born in December 1923 in Cedarhurst, New York. He had one sister who was older than him. His family...
Melton, M. Prewar Life
M. Edward Melton was born in Henderson, Kentucky in June 1925. He had a happy childhood. They had no money, but neither...
Beal, Marion Prewar Life
Marion Meredith Beal was born in October 1922 in Jefferson, Texas. He had a small family. He was the only child for a...
Tidmore, Roberta Prewar Life
Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in March 1922. She has one sister. There was only one...
Varner, Joel Prewar Life
Joel Varner was born in October 1923 in Senatobia, Mississippi. He attended high school and junior college there. He...
Carter, Donald Prewar Life
Don Carter was born in January 1925 in Wellsville, New York and grew up in Hornell [Annotator's Note: Hornell, New York...
Tolles, Martha Prewar Life
Martha Tolles was born in Oklahoma City [Annotator’s Note: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] in 1921. She grew up in New York...
Blank, Calvin Prewar Life
Calvin Blank was born in January 1926 in Bronx, New York [Annotator's Note: the Bronx is one of the five boroughs in...
Gohlke, Marvin Prewar Life
Marvin H. Gohlke was born in Texas in November 1921. He was the oldest child. His mother had four more sons. She died...
Paul, John Prewar Life
John Paul was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in February 1920. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression;...
Dochick, Wesley Prewar Life
Wesley John Dochick was born in December 1920 in New Britain, Connecticut. He had one brother and three sisters, and a...
Splichal, William Prewar Life
William Splichal was born in May 1924 in Lincoln, Nebraska. His father worked for the city and his mother raised the...
Nygren, Karl Prewar Life
Carl Nygren was born in March 1927 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It was a colony town. They had a radio. There were...
Byrnes, William Prewar Life
William E. Byrnes was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in January 1926. His family moved around a...
Stables, Barbara Prewar Life
Barbara Stables was born in November 1926 in Mobile, Alabama. They were not affected too much by the Depression [...
Smith, Bernard Prewar Life
Bernard Smith was born in July 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He did not grow up there. They moved to Syracuse, New York...
Taliancich, Joseph Prewar Life
Joseph Taliancich was born in Louisiana in 1920. His father came over from Yugoslavia and went into the oyster business...

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