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The Americans had captured some bases on the east coast of China and the Army Air Forces were out in the boondocks [...

Robert Liles attributes his success as a fighter pilot to the leadership he had in China from the general [Annotator's...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...

Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...

In Ledo, McNeil saw every type of wound. She worked on GIs and on Chinese patients. She worked in the Chinese ward for...

Herbert Saylor was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in September 1925. He was brought up during the Depression [Annotator'...

Berle Wheeler was company clerk [Annotator's Note: in the 967th Engineer Maintenance Company at Ledo, India]. Each man...

In Iraq, John Alison spotted a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] flying overhead. He...

In June 1943, Joseph McGuire was sent to India. The day before he left, his colonel admitted he had been trying to keep...

Richard Cole was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1915. After graduating from high school he went to work on a farm for 75...

Carl Constein flew as a pilot for the air operations of the CBI campaign [Annotator’s Note: China-Burma-India Theater...

John Hever noted that when they got to Seattle, Washington, there was no parade. The returning soldiers and sailors...

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