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Leo Denault remembers his pilot would give them flight time. He decided Denault and the engineer were supposed to fly...

[Annotator’s Note: There is noise in the background throughout this segment.] Anthony “Tony” Gallego enlisted in the...

Describing the journey on the SS Dorchester, Ben Epstein said it was a terrible trip. But he pointed out that in every...

James Pritchett was born in Thomaston, Alabama in 1924, and grew up during the Great Depression. His family "got along...

Chester Brewer was sent to Las Vegas, Nevada and fired every gun from BB guns [Annotator's Note: air gun that fires...

Donald Dean Paynter went to Rosecrans Field [Annotator's Note: also called St. Joseph Army Airfield, near St. Joseph,...

John Symons was in Karachi, India and assigned to the 25th Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 25th Fighter Squadron,...

Olen Grant spent Christmas 1943 in a prison camp. For Grant, the holidays were just like any other day. Some of the...

Barney Old Coyote’s crew was credited with sinking a submarine; it was not an individual accolade. The escort would...

Cleveland Peterson was aboard the SS Johnson when he heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They had been...

When the war ended in Europe, Homer Cole was sent to Alexandria, Louisiana to begin training on B-29s [Annotator's Note...

Robert Butler Whitcomb was born in Scipio, Indiana. When he was about six his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he...

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