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Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan and Guilin, China as part of the 21st...

Robert Liles was born in 1920 in Webb City, Missouri and grew up in Jefferson City. When the depression began, his...

Brooks was just past 20 years old when he first entered the Navy. When he came back home it was like coming back to...

Missions began to ramp down in May [Annotator's Note: May 1945, when the Japanese were pushed too far out of range of...

The war in Europe had ended, but the war in the Pacific continued. The Allies were supporting Chiang Kai-Shek [...

Roy H. Matsumoto used his carbine [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic carbine] to drive back the enemy on...

Lawrence Eustis was on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] when he heard about VE-Day [...

When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Henderson flew as a tail gunner on a B-17 [Annotators Note: American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber] until his last...

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

Berle Wheeler was sent to Camp Robinson, Arkansas for 13 weeks of boot camp. He was then sent to Camp Gordon in Augusta...

Lester Shapiro did not know anything about getting a Bronze Star [Annotator's Note: the Bronze Star Medal is the fourth...

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