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James Shelton Scales boarded a troop ship on New Year's Eve, 1944. He boarded APA-154, the Lowndes [Annotator's Note:...

While on Midway, Sumner Whitten's squadron was changed from VMSB-231 [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron...

After a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Bill Toledo [Annotator's Note:...

William G. Roy is proud of his role in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. He thinks that the...

Edward Riedl felt that if they did not kill, they would be killed themselves. The Japs [Annotator's Note: a period...

Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1921. His family moved to Los Angeles [Annotator's Note...

Peter Gallo was involved in an incident that got him into trouble in Korea. A Japanese officer came in and was chasing...

Lester Caplan was born in 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. As the son of a traveling salesman, he felt his childhood was "...

Ray Eshelman did not take long to transition back to civilian life. He was looking forward to it. He did not miss the...

Mason Brownell Fitch determined that radar was very important when flying missions into Japan. The terrain was much...

Thomas Crosby had bad asthma as a child, so while he was living in the internment camp, he slept in a bed by the window...

Richard Lamey Nesossis was at home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in...

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