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Fiske Hanley talks about the close calls he experienced during his first six missions over the Japanese home islands....

Charles "Chuck" Wisher went through basic training at Sheppard Field in Wichita, Texas. Training was good, but tough....

While on Guam, Orville Carroll and some men built a small bamboo chapel, where they would sing without instruments....

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

The crew left from San Francisco, California, and Theodore Theodore remembers that during the overnight flight the...

William Jackson joined the 55th Troop Carrier Squadron, 375th Troop Carrier Group at Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak,...

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

Russell Gackenbach had his Army Air Forces basic training in Florida. There were not enough uniforms for the recruits...

Charles Struble remembers planes [Annotator's Note: of the 421st Bombardment Squadron, 504th Bombardment Group, 20th...

It took five and a half days for James Bollich to reach Camp O'Donnell [Annotator's Note: American instillation used as...

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

In Auckland, New Zealand, Wesley Carroll “got a virus or something,” and ended up in the hospital. He was sent back to...

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