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Mason Brownell Fitch was born in September 1925 in Rochester, New York. He graduated high school in 1943 and took the...

Donald H. "Don" Bee was sent from Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake...

In 1944 as a senior in high school, Howard Cain avoided the draft by enlisting in the Army Air Force. He was gung-ho...

Hopkins finished that phase in September 1941. Hopkins was assigned to Bombing Squadron 4 which operated off of the USS...

By the time the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Robert Leese had completed his...

In preparation for hitting the beaches, Joe Clapper said a soldier's main concern is that he has enough ammunition. He...

Noah Lewis could not believe how many people were killed by the atomic bomb. He was shown a before and after picture of...

Oscar Culp was deployed to American Samoa [Annotator's Note: after joining the Marine Corps and training in 1943]. On a...

For Robert Rosendahl, fear is what kept him going during the Bataan Death March. The Japanese were barbarians. Very few...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

The officers would "talk a lot about things," Donald Campbell says, it was a furious campaign [Annotator's Note: the...

Victor K. Carman remembers the typhoon. It was significant. The Philippines got hit by a typhoon with winds of 190...

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