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The Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, referred to as the Zeke or Zero] was tough to...

While at U. S. Navy boot camp, Clyde Jones was asked for his duty preference; he remembers asking to be an aerial...

After rejoining his unit [Annotator's Note: 869th Bombardment Squadron, 497th Bombardment Group, 21st Bomber Command,...

Leo Denault liked Westover Field [Annotator’s Note: Westover Field, Massachusetts] the best. He liked Tokyo [Annotator’...

Malcolm Johnson had been a civilian contractor on Wake Island when he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Japanese....

At Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk, Virginia], James W. Metcalf was assigned to Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13) on the...

Nick Cristiano says his crew were nice boys. He was anxious to go on his first mission [Annotator's Note: January 1945...

Mason Brownell Fitch and his bomber crew [Annotator's Note: of the 504th Bombardment Group] returned from a mission...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Dietzel served in the USAAF as a copilot on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in the...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was a tail gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortressvery heavy bomber in the 53rd...

Edgar De Pue Osgood spent some time on liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time]...

Anthony Costa was sent to Osaka aboard a ship to work on the docks there. He was in a transport ship hold where he did...

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