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Russell Gackenbach had no idea where Tinian was located when he arrived there. He only knew it was close to Japan. At...

The last mission for Mason Brownell Fitch really sticks out in his mind. Reaching into his little blue book [Annotator'...

One day, they [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] loaded Alfred Raymond Mosher and others onto an inland sea ferry and...

Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

Robert G. Aldous did not have nightmares early on. He has reoccurrences of some of the things he went through during...

Charles Kneflin had never seen anything like the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]....

Donald Herbert Shown and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] completed delivery of atomic bomb [...

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

To fill personnel losses resulting from accidents and combat, Richard Baile's crew was broken up. He was made the...

William Schrader was born in February 1926 in Hollywood, Florida. An only child, his father moved the family to...

Judge Gordon Thompson was born in June 1926 in Perry County, Alabama. He grew up with two sisters on a hundred-acre...

Wendell Woodall was in the 19th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 19th Bombardment Group] which initially took off from...

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