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Their first dive bombing mission was a railroad trestle in Burma. Henderson lined up over his bomb sight. He dropped...

George C. Ward had his basic training at Fort Custer in Michigan [Annotator’s Note: he was drafted into the US Army in...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...

Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...

While in India, Grant Jiro Hirabayashi worked as a translator for the British Air Force after being in Burma [Annotator...

Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

Albert Sieck was assigned as a pilot with the 22nd Bombardment Squadron, 341st Bombardment Group, 10th Air Force in...

At Langley airbase, John Alison switched over to P-36 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-36 Hawk] pursuit aircraft. In a...

In June 1943, Joseph McGuire was sent to India. The day before he left, his colonel admitted he had been trying to keep...

John Hever noted that when they got to Seattle, Washington, there was no parade. The returning soldiers and sailors...

The last time Richard Cole saw the old man [Annotator's Note: USAF General James H. Doolittle] was in 1992. Several of...

Gus Gikas considered enlistment to be good for him. Being an amateur radio operator, Gikas could fix just about any...

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