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Their first dive bombing mission was a railroad trestle in Burma. Henderson lined up over his bomb sight. He dropped...

At the end of the war, Elmo Espree was transported through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean...

Harold Daniel Snyder [Annotator's Note: with the 71st Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force] had...

Courtland Claus will never forget what the Japanese did [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

[Annotator's Note: For pilots like Raymond Kaiser, combat tours went by time in China, instead of by number of missions...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Kaiser returned to the United States after flying 116 missions in China.] Kaiser was in the...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

Gus Gikas and his unit spent six weeks in North Africa, mainly in training exercises simulating shipboard problems that...

Samuel Spector was shipped to Burma and its jungles. He was among the first individuals to carry into action the...

The Battle at Walawbum [Annotator's Note: Tanai, Kachin, Burma; now Myanmar, in March 1944] was Robert Lippman's first...

Herbert Saylor was drafted shortly after graduating from high school. His father and sister brought Saylor to the train...

Masaji Inoshita was born in central California. At an early age he moved down to the Santa Barbara area. His father had...

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