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Ray Anthony returned to Cleveland after the war. He began to organize his own band recruiting former Navy bandmembers...

Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...

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

Donald Campbell was born in 1923 in Cedar Lake, Mississippi, the son of a sawmill worker. He grew up during the Great...

James N. Rizzo sailed overseas to the Pacific. He did not travel with his whole group [Annotator's Note: 553rd Air...

Learning of the Japanese surrender was a relief for Don Daniels. He was on a ship off Honolulu [Annotator's Note:...

Ray Eshelman was never interested in a military career. He had a couple of choices at discharge. He could join the...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in 5th Marine Division] had to be responsible for his 30 camera guys [...

Henry Quinton Pike returned to the United States to be trained as a platoon instructor but he did not like that duty....

Around 8:15 or 8:20 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of 16 April 1945] the first 4 Japanese kamikaze planes heading...

John Gehrett reached Sydney [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit, Gehrett reached Sydney,...

Abraham Rosenzweig returned home [Annotator’s Note: to Chicago, Illinois from Los Angeles, California where he had...

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