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Crump was only aware that the Depression was a tragedy. Times were hard. Crump’s dad was unemployed half of the time....

Gus Gikas was in India when he heard that the Germans had surrendered. Later, he heard of the Japanese surrender. Gikas...

Samuel Spector recalled hearing of the war in Europe ending and the atomic bombs being dropped. He was in Burma when he...

Samuel Spector's most memorable experience of World War 2 was growing up from 18 to 20 years of age. His expectations...

The Battle at Walawbum [Annotator's Note: Tanai, Kachin, Burma; now Myanmar, in March 1944] was Robert Lippman's first...

Calvin F. Bannon was born in Seattle, Washington in 1921 and had two older brothers. One of his brothers flew a B-17 [...

After flight training [Annotator's Note: in the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber], Newton Dana was sent to...

Joseph Silvia was stationed in Tezpur, India as a teletype operator [Annotator's Note: with the 1347th Army Air Force...

Richard Cole heard that some of the aircraft had cameras on them but his was not one of them. The picture of Doolittle...

Perry Garten removed wounded troops from the combat zones in his glider. The injured Australians were very stoic but...

Revis Dale Haslett was born in July 1922 in Brownstown, Illinois. He lived in Illinois until after he graduated high...

[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] Gilbert H. Howland and his outfit [Annotator's...

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