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On 1 June 1945, 800 B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] and B-17s [Annotator's Note:...

The cook [Annotator's Note: on the USS LCI(L)-1012] got sick, and one was needed. Harold Ronson put in for it as he had...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman ended...

Harry Watson said describing life aboard a submarine can be confusing to someone who isn't qualified. Once qualified, a...

James William Grimes kept in touch with his family by writing letters occasionally. He had a girlfriend in high school...

After the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: the surrender was announced by Japanese Emperor Hirohito on 15 August...

During the first night they [Annotator's Note: Harlan Twible and the other survivors of the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]...

While Robert Brant was an Air Traffic Controller, he witnesses many plane crashes on Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

The next bad thing to happen was when Childers tried to fire at a Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese fighter aircraft],...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...

Hopkins finished that phase in September 1941. Hopkins was assigned to Bombing Squadron 4 which operated off of the USS...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

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