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Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

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

Arriving on the island of Tinian, Jones and his crew are immediately told to fuel and arm their plane in preparation...

Rex James Bates was assigned to the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma. The squadron...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Dye what his reaction to the news of the atomic bombs being dropped on...

William Ebersole flew his first mission in May 1945. It was a dive-bombing mission to Chichi Jima which is where George...

William Scott Stroud departed Hawaii for Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands], stopping over...

The Air Force had a habit of giving flyers a shot of whiskey before they went into a debriefing. John Caudle went...

Most of Nick Cristiano's bombing missions started in the evening. He would call the meal before leaving "the last...

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

Hersey Goodwin and the gunners spent a lot of time with flight recognition. When the plane flew into the one in front,...

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

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