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Robert “Bob” Bowron was born in Birmingham [Annotator’s Note: Birmingham, Alabama] in January 1927. He recalled when...

After leaving the service, Harold DeForest wanted to go to the Chrysler Institute to study engineering but he had to go...

Fighting in the Leyte Valley area lasted for two brutal months, and John Smith related the tale of the event that...

Richard O'Hara had one brother three and a half years older than him who went in the Marines earlier than O'Hara. He...

William Cart was on Majuro [Annotator's Note: Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands] when he heard about the atomic bombs...

Warren J. Haslauer's lasting memory of World War 2 is how damned unnecessary the whole thing was. It was a colossal...

John Ream remembers that if anyone kept a diary, the FBI [Annotator’s Note: Federal Bureau of Investigation] would...

Stewart Bass served aboard an Essex class aircraft carrier. [Annotator's Note: Bass served as a Grumman TBM Avenger...

John "Jack" Raquepau got called to go to Preflight School in early November 1942. He went to boot camp which was called...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was an engine operator who was on the ground...

When Selwyn Gilmore was in Tucson [Annotator's Note: Tucson, Arizona], there was a WAC [Annotator's Note: Women's Army...

When Feightner pulled up at the end of the runway he was hit again. His F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F "Hellcat"...

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