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Fiske Hanley talks about the close calls he experienced during his first six missions over the Japanese home islands....

Ray Eshelman was born in Dayton, Ohio, in July 1925. He grew up there and attended school. He graduated [Annotator's...

Jack H. Bleuler served as a tail gunner on a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] with...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's friends operated the prisoner of war stockade on New Caledonia. Glusing liked to visit his...

Jack D. Samuelson saw his first combat at Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg...

Jones was born in Oregon. When he was 10 years old, 1 of his sisters contracted tuberculosis so his mother elected to...

Frank V. Tarkington was fortunate to have a mild and unexcitable experience in the war. He got a break by having...

By the time he went overseas, Julian Trist Bringier McConnell did not have heavy ammunition. He spent most of his time...

Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...

Forrest Villarrubia found the weather on Guam to be beautiful while he was stationed there after his tour in Leyte. The...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] was on the airstrip on the second day [...

Paul J. Murphy had his first campaign [Annotator’s Note: as a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] in...

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