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Robert Offenbacher thought he grew up in the Army. The major was tough and a big man. The company drunk took a jeep and...

Sherman was born and raised near Toledo, Ohio. He attended school in Toledo. He was fortunate enough to take classes at...

Samuel Spector was always hungry in the jungle with Detachment 101. The food that was airdropped would not last long so...

Arnold Spielberg was not depressed or unhappy being a communications guy [Annotator's Note: in the 490th Bombardment...

Wesley Fronk never fired a shot in anger. There was one instance where he and another soldier were returning from...

Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan and Guilin, China as part of the 21st...

Herbert Gross had trained on B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bombers. His new...

Cleveland Peterson was aboard the SS Johnson when he heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They had been...

Brooks was just past 20 years old when he first entered the Navy. When he came back home it was like coming back to...

Missions began to ramp down in May [Annotator's Note: May 1945, when the Japanese were pushed too far out of range of...

On arriving in Bombay, India [Annotator's Note: now Mumbai, India], Edward Denzler's group was taken to an airport...

Roy H. Matsumoto used his carbine [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic carbine] to drive back the enemy on...

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