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Thomas Paris remembers when they were checking out of the runway and the pilot landed and they were not on the runway....

The United States was going into Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Western New Guinea] and the Japanese thwarted the...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Dietzel served in the USAAF as a copilot on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in the...

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi for combat engineer training, which he did not...

Henry Ratcliff was most affected by the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese Special Attack Units, also called shimbu-...

Walter Atwood took a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] home. One night, the...

Louis Zamperini qualified for the 1936 Olympics and went to New York to compete with Don Lash [Annotator's Note: Donald...

On his way back home, Lincoln Piazzo was relieved to be leaving the scene of the war. He admitted that he was...

Howard Cain sailed across the Pacific on a troop ship to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was assigned to...

Bruno S. Rinas was stationed at Iba Field [Annotator's Note: Iba Airfield, Luzon, Philippines] when he heard about the...

The smell over Tokyo during that night bombing mission [Annotator's Note: the 24 and 25 May 1945 fire bombing mission]...

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