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

John Elliott and his crew knew nothing about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

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

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

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

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

Fiske Hanley II was held captive by Kempeitai [Annotator's Note: Kenpeitai, also called Kempeitai; military police arm...

[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...

A regular day for Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] was to keep the transmitters going...

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...

Sterling Baker was in the National Youth Administration and trained to be a carpenter. He was also in charge of the...

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