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Robert G. Aldous and his crew flew their last mission out of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. It was going...

While living in Japan during World War 2, Nobuo Hayashi describes that the bombings would happen during the day, while...

In this segment, Jones remembers that while they didn’t know specifics about the atomic bomb, they knew something was...

On 26 March 1945, Fiske Hanley II [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air...

While on Guam, Orville Carroll and some men built a small bamboo chapel, where they would sing without instruments....

Lee R. Broussard was working for Admiral Nimitz's [Annotator's Note: US Navy Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

Nick Cristiano was shot down on 15 April 1945. He was in prison for five and a half months [Annotator's Note: he was...

Robert Frederick Reed's unit trained with rockets in Hawaii, after having trained for bombing and torpedoes. Reed...

[Annotator's Note: Maynard David served in the USAAF as a bombardier on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Abner Aust to describe the mission where he shot down three Japanese Franks -...

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

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