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Archibald Higgins was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. He did not know where the location...

Rowland Elliott Ball served as a navigator with the 60th Bombardment Squadron, 39th Bombardment Group, 20th Air Force...

When Hersey Goodwin was discharged, it was after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Most of Nick Cristiano's bombing missions started in the evening. He would call the meal before leaving "the last...

Joseph F. McGee Junior flew near Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan as a member of 460th Fighter Squadron,...

[Annotator's Note: Abner Aust was a flight instructor in Fort Myers, Florida in 1943.] They started flying the P-40N [...

William Cart flew the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglass SBD Dauntless dive bomber]. It was easy to fly, and he enjoyed it...

Around the time Paul Dietzel flew his first mission, General Curtis LeMay had gone to the Pacific to take over the 20th...

Russell Gackenbach served in the Air Force as a navigator on B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks if Clarence Becker had received word that flights were not supposed to go out...

Harold Bergbower has no memory of the trip from the POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp in Davao on Mindanao...

Robert Frederick Reed found that flying near Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was traumatic, knowing that...

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