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Photograph. Column of smoke mushrooming over Nagasaki after detonation of American atomic bomb over the city. Official...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

Hersey Goodwin does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 11th Bombardment Group, 7th Air Force]....

Russell Gackenbach was briefed either at 11 or 12 o'clock prior to the mission. [Annotator's Note: The mission being...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore about the weapons he carried.] A little short rifle [Annotator's...

Charles Struble learned about the atomic bombs being dropped after the aircraft returned [Annotator's Note: nuclear...

George Hood flew a memorable bomber mission over Odaka, Japan [Annotator’s Note: in a Boeing B-29 Superfortress heavy...

Donald F. Goyette got to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands], really early in the air war, but as a...

A Jewish boy joined Harold Daniel Snyder's group [Annotator's Note: 71st Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group,...

After a brief stay on Saipan, David Fisher and his crewmates were sent to Guam to join the 39th Bomb Group, 314th Bomb...

Donald Marsaglia had enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was devised based on a number of factors that...

George Colburn does not believe in bravery. The last thing on your mind is getting a medal. Medals counted for points...

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