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Ittsei Nakagawa's father's side of the family came over to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Japan] around 1904...

[Annotator's Note: Selwyn Gilmore served in the United States Army Air Forces as a ground crew armorer for the Boeing B...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

Bombing Japan was a joint effort, according to Donald F. Goyette. He remembers loading bombs onto his squadron's [...

Robert Frederick Reed's unit trained with rockets in Hawaii, after having trained for bombing and torpedoes. Reed...

Lloyd Guillory flew aboard an LB-30 [Annotator's Note: the Consolidated LB-30 Liberator cargo aircraft was a variant of...

Mason Brownell Fitch determined that radar was very important when flying missions into Japan. The terrain was much...

Dale Bates flew seven missions as an instructor before the squad was disbanded in October 1944. Bates was then...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot in Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in combat...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew were flying over Formosa [Annotator's Note: then the Republic of Formosa, present day...

Charles Graves Chauncey did very few daylight missions and during those missions he would fly low. Most of his daylight...

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