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During his time in the Samar Islands, the Philippines, William Schrader [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 23rd...

In late May 1945, Gerald Auerbach's crew was chosen to become the lead crew in the squadron [Annotator's Note: 881st...

George Colburn does not believe in bravery. The last thing on your mind is getting a medal. Medals counted for points...

Jack Brukman realized that the big problem was that they were bombing from great heights and could not hit the target [...

Theodore Robert Tanner flew six missions in a P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft], but never...

The first thing Charles Kneflin saw when he flew over Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], were the biggest...

Lisle Neher was flabbergasted when he first saw the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman was...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Russell Gackenbach participated in the dropping of the second atomic bomb. On that mission, he was the navigator on the...

Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic of Formosa; present day Taiwan] had not been hit and was going to be hit for the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer attempts to tie Selwyn Gilmore's work on Guam, Mariana Islands to his work in oil...

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