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Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

On 7 December 1941, Edmund Aziz and his fiancée were watching a matinee in Detroit, Michigan. When they came out of the...

Ellis Whaley's training had been in engineering. He was given a transit and laid out roads and a cemetery. He had some...

Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

James Gulotta was training to hit Tokyo when the war ended. His unit was to land near Yokohama but the war ended before...

In the fall of 1944, Frank M. Heuer Sr. left the Hawaiian Islands and arrived at Tarawa [Annotator’s Note: Tarawa Atoll...

John Bradley [Annotator's Note: born in Manila, Philippines to an American father and Australian mother in 1936] would...

Richard Lafleur was born in December 1926 in Bemidji, Minnesota. He was there until he was about 15, when his parents...

John DuBose heard little current war news while onboard the SS Frenchtown. They did learn shortly after the end of the...

George Peto had a unique experience there [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa] one time while watching kamikazes hitting...

The war came along. Francis Bucher remembers first hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

David Lehigh was friendly with officers and enlisted men. One of his friends was flying over Saigon [Annotator's Note:...

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