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Ray Eshelman knew everybody was going to be drafted. There was also a universal interest in joining the service and...

Tony Schneider recaps his involvement in the Doolittle Raid that took place on 18 April 1942. Assigned to VB-6 [...

Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: a Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter pilot with Fighting Squadron 22 (VF-22) aboard...

Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...

Frank Borrell thinks about the men he served with. They became like members of his family. Everyone tried to be friends...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] was glad to see the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS...

Robert D. Shaner's mom was German and was upset with the Germans after the First World War and her German relatives who...

Richard Tempus Dixon's time in the Philippines was interesting. Some of the natives got hold of some hand grenades and...

Paul Sparacino was born in July 1943 in Simmesport, Louisiana. His father drove a log truck. They moved to Alexandria,...

Jack D. Owen was born in Lufkin, Texas in 1926. He had a twin sister and an older brother. Owen’s father struggled...

Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...

Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...

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