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Wesley Fronk never fired a shot in anger. There was one instance where he and another soldier were returning from...

Brooks never once had any contact with the Red Cross. At 1 point they were each issued 1 item out of a Red Cross parcel...

Robert Liles was born in 1920 in Webb City, Missouri and grew up in Jefferson City. When the depression began, his...

Missions began to ramp down in May [Annotator's Note: May 1945, when the Japanese were pushed too far out of range of...

Joel Varner had no desire to stay in the Army Air Forces. He wanted an education. He went right back to college. He got...

Robert Offenbacher thought he grew up in the Army. The major was tough and a big man. The company drunk took a jeep and...

Roy H. Matsumoto used his carbine [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic carbine] to drive back the enemy on...

William Disanza worked in the office for Falcon Buick. His job was to be the follow up guy. He would contact the...

When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...

Berle Wheeler experienced Japanese air raids but slit trenches protected him from the attacks [Annotator's Note: he was...

Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan and Guilin, China as part of the 21st...

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