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After joining the Marine reserves following World War 2, John Edward Campbell found work for a pharmaceutical company...

Mason Brownell Fitch determined that radar was very important when flying missions into Japan. The terrain was much...

Bombing Japan was a joint effort, according to Donald F. Goyette. He remembers loading bombs onto his squadron's [...

Although Archibald Higgins thought he would fly home. That did not happen. He sailed on a ship from Manila. The voyage...

Remi Kidder got the bed he always hoped he would have. [Annotator's Note: Kidder joined the Navy and served aboard the...

George Colburn does not believe in bravery. The last thing on your mind is getting a medal. Medals counted for points...

Jack Brukman realized that the big problem was that they were bombing from great heights and could not hit the target [...

On 27 March 1945, Fiske Hanley II and his flight crew [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th...

Charles Kneflin had never seen anything like the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]....

The name of Wendall Woodall's B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was City of...

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

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

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