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Dale Bates wanted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps and enrolled in college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon...

John Elliott felt that the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was an excellent...

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

[Annotator's Note: There is static noise in the audio throughout clip.] It took Richard R. Ruess 13 hours to fly to...

Archibald Higgins was in the Palau Islands with the mission of keeping those islands neutralized and flying missions to...

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

When Lester Hecht was in Mindanao [Annotator's Note: Mindanao, Philippines], the aircraft he was in charge of always...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Baile served in the USAAF as a flight engineer on B-29 bombers in the 9th Bombardment Group...

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

Charles Graves Chauncey's aircraft was named "Goin' Jessie" with a mean-looking rabbit for the nose art. He recalled...

The last mission Maynard David flew was on 30 August [Annotator's Note: 30 August 1945]. It was an air-sea rescue...

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

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