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Robert Akins discusses how the heroes were the ones who gave their lives 10,000 miles from home. Of the 120 men in his...

Paul Amrod was born in November 1926 in Saugerties, New York, the tenth of 11 children. His father, a Lebanese...

Hannas family was living in Texas when he joined the Army in July 1938 in Lubbock. He took his basic training at Ft....

Buck Donaldson joined the Navy. He went to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp by train....

After the attack, Robert Powers continued moving south towards the battalion CP [Annotator's Note: command post]. They...

Lisle Neher took part in all five of the fire bomb mission. On those missions they would fly between 300 feet and 700...

James "Jim" Tubach was sent to a little town outside of Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] called Fukiya [Annotator...

Harry McKnight was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He had an older brother. The family moved to Ohio soon...

John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...

Henry L Baul was born in December 1922 in Fitzgerald, Georgia. His family moved to Florida when Baul was young. His...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was sent...

John "Jack" Raquepau was just bombing in the Gilbert [Annotator's Note: Gilbert Islands] and Marshall Islands [...

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