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Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

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

Lisle Neher took part in all five of the fire bomb mission. On those missions they would fly between 300 feet and 700...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

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

Russell Gackenbach felt that Tibbets [Annotator's Note: retired USAF Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets] and crew number...

William Scott Stroud and his crew carried out 39 strategic bombing missions. [Annotator's Note: Having been shot down...

Judge Gordon Thompson recalled preparing for the invasion of mainland Japan in the Leyte Gulf, Philippines. He recalled...

Gerald Auerbach was born in New York City [Annotator’s Note: New York City, New York] in 1924. Because of the Great...

Clyde Jones was born in Cordova, Alabama in 1923. He was raised in nearby Windfield, Alabama, where his father worked...

Donald F. Goyette volunteered for Iwo Jima [Annotator's note: Iwo Jima, Japan] because his plane got shot up, and he...

Hersey Goodwin was in high school, and they talked current events in the mornings. They knew about it [Annotator's Note...

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