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

Lisle Neher took part in all five of the fire bomb mission. On those missions they would fly between 300 feet and 700...

Jack H. Bleuler served as a tail gunner on a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] with...

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

Russell Gackenbach felt that Tibbets [Annotator's Note: retired USAF Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets] and crew number...

[Annotator’s Note: Construction vehicles can be heard in the background throughout the segment, as well as someone in...

Judge Gordon Thompson was born in June 1926 in Perry County, Alabama. He grew up with two sisters on a hundred-acre...

Vernon Grimes was sent to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], where he boarded a troop ship....

Harry Carlson feels his most eventful missions were the nighttime missions over Japan. They were frightening at times...

Donald F. Goyette spent time on Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan]. When the Marines were preparing to invade...

James J. Hill flew the F4F Wildcat [Annotator's Note: Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter aircraft] which was the best, until...

George Allen was sent to Lincoln, Nebraska to train on the Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers with Combat...

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