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Robert Liles made captain in 1942. In 1943 he was given command of the 16th Fighter Squadron. Before taking over the...

Lawrence Eustis was born in March 1921 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of nine children. During the Great...

Roy H. Matsumoto infiltrated behind enemy lines at night to listen to their discussions for potential intelligence. [...

Grant Jiro Hirabayashi attended school in Hotaka, Nagano, Japan for eight years and lived with his extended family....

When Richard Cole returned to the United States he was stationed at an aircraft manufacturing plant. As the planes...

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

Roy Uthes discovered that his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] was being sent to the...

Courtland Claus could see buildings just beyond the dock when he arrived in India. He saw a stagecoach going by. It was...

Lester Shapiro left the United States from California. Ninety percent of the men got seasick on the boat. When he left...

John Hever was born in 1924 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was the second of four children and the only boy....

Although trained in the PB-2A pursuit aircraft, John Alison was glad he did not have to go to war in it. Communication...

Going overseas was quite the adventure for Sherman. Sherman stopped at numerous points throughout the war. He was a...

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