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The B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was a four engine bomber. Hersey Goodwin has read...

Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...

Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

Claude Shannahan joined the Raiders because he wasn't tall enough to be a paratrooper and because he liked the name. He...

One ensign did bail out. He was picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He was interrogated, according to testimony from the...

Iwo Jima as the worst place Dave Severance fought. They could not see the enemy. The terrain was rough and open. Living...

Rosemarie Weber went to school in the camp but didn't learn very much. She didn't finish 8th grade. Learning wasn't the...

Jones believes that the raid was important and worth the risk and cost. After the raid the men just kept on going.Jones...

Richard Keller did not get promoted to captain until after they were in combat. They went straight into the jungle to...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

Marion Labauve went to Avondale Shipyard [Annotator's Note: in Bridge City, Louisiana] after the war. It was dangerous...

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