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Stewart Bass was trained to be a naval aviator. The first months involved college type training at St. Mary's College...

Walter Nelson had a different pilot for his first raid. The pilot’s name was Lieutenant Womper [Annotators Note: unsure...

As they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and John Liska] approached, the entire village came to greet them. Carmody...

In 1942 they began to realize that the Japanese were planning an assault on Port Moresby [Annotator's Note: New Guinea...

Melvin Munch was part of the invasion of Okinawa when it commenced on Easter Sunday in April 1945. He rode a landing...

Davis Gordon Mayes heard about the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan through the radio receivers while he was...

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] received news that his ship would take part in the...

Cleatus Lebow believes that, although the contents of the crate they carried to was top secret, speculation among the...

After Orville Bethard was discharged he used his GI Bill benefits to take classes at Compton Junior College for a...

When John Votrobeck arrived at the base [Annotator's Note: in Freemantle, Australia], he was assigned to Submarine...

Sam S. McKeel dropped out of high school at age 16 to enlist in the Navy during World War 2. He knew he was going to...

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