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Cass Phillips flew toward New Guinea from Hawaii making several stops at small islands along the southwesterly route....

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...

James Patterson was called up on 23 February 1943. He was sent to boot camp with a bunch of other reservists. They...

Claude Shannahan and his unit went to Vallejo, California while waiting for transfer papers to go on furlough. Shanahan...

Edward Bale witnessed attacks by Japanese troops who were inebriated. He learned to like the Japanese after the war...

In Sacramento Jones checked Doolittle out. Doolittle had selected as his crew, the crew of one of the pilots who had...

When William Goldsborough turned 18 in January 1944, he registered for the draft, and was allowed to finish out his...

Salvador Perino was sent to Memphis, Tennessee to fly Stearmans [Annotator's Note: Boeing-Stearman Model 75 Kaydet or...

Richard Miralles was at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] for four months. They made the...

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