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William Cart was on Majuro [Annotator's Note: Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands] when he heard about the atomic bombs...

Jack Taylor returned home in December [Annotator's Note: December 1944] but decided to return to combat with his former...

William Scott Stroud departed Hawaii for Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands], stopping over...

The Air Force had a habit of giving flyers a shot of whiskey before they went into a debriefing. John Caudle went...

Clarence Becker was based at Harmon Field, also called Depot Field [Annotator's Note: now Harmon Air Force Base on Guam...

John Elliott's B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was a Martin-built aircraft [...

Hersey Goodwin and the gunners spent a lot of time with flight recognition. When the plane flew into the one in front,...

[Annotator's Note: James "Jim" Marshall served in the US Army Air Forces as a radio operator aboard Boeing B-29...

Walter Bowsher was sent to Hokkaido, Japan to a prisoner of war, or POW, camp. He arrived at Hakodate Number 2 prison...

Louis Zamperini thought that the mission [Annotator's Note: to bomb Wake Island] was a piece of cake because they were...

Charles Struble remembers planes [Annotator's Note: of the 421st Bombardment Squadron, 504th Bombardment Group, 20th...

Charles Graves Chauncey was assigned missions to bomb Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan]. On one of those missions...

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