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Russell Gackenbach participated in the dropping of the second atomic bomb. On that mission, he was the navigator on the...

It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

After he got home, Charles Stix started at the University of Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio]...

Richard Lafleur was born in December 1926 in Bemidji, Minnesota. He was there until he was about 15, when his parents...

Clarence Becker was promoted to G-3, Operations Officer, in January 1945. He had been a Flight Commander until that...

Daniel J. Lawler went into Peking, China [Annotator's Note: modern day Beijing, China] after Okinawa [Annotator's Note...

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

John "Jack" Raquepau guesses that outside of the Revolution [Annotator's Note: American Revolutionary War, or, American...

During the initial attack Rogers was in the bushes away from the air field and could see them fly over. That was around...

Eugene Tarrant has certain memories from the war that have stuck with him to this day. One night off of Guadalcanal,...

Leo Denault remembers they would post every day who qualified. [Annotator’s Note: He was in training in Santa Ana,...

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