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

Before he graduated, Harold Daniel Snyder went to enlist in the Army Air Corps with three others. His parents did not...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Kaiser completed his pilot training and flew out of Miami, Florida for his next assignment...

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

Roy Uthes arrived in Myitkyinā without any combat experience. His unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 209th Engineer...

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

Joseph McGuire returned to the United States in 1944 and reported to Nashville [Annotator's Note: Nashville, Tennessee...

The barracks were about two or three miles from the fields. Sometimes John Symons walked there. They had A, B, and C...

Cleveland Peterson heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor after boarding a ship in San Francisco, California...

Herbert Gross has a vivid memory of an experience with the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy...

Frank R. Burnside was born in February 1915 in Tensas Parish in Newellton, Louisiana, on Franklin Plantation, where he...

All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...

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