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From Townsville, Australia, Robert Leese went to Port Moresby, New Guinea, which was still occupied in the north by the...

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

On the 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1942] they passed under the Golden Gate Bridge. The men were all excited...

Richard Baile was given a rigid physical which was going well until they gave him the color blind test again. This time...

Charles Struble was born in June 1924 in Benton, Illinois. He grew up there with one brother and one sister. He also...

Floyd Annas had always wanted to fly and enlisting in the Army Air Corps was a way to do it. He was sent to Miami Beach...

Ray Fitzgerald was right behind the pilot and copilot in the top turret in the B-24 [Annotator's Note: he was the...

Richard R. Ruess was born in Los Angeles, California in August 1918. His parents had two daughters that were killed in...

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

On VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], James Morehead was base commander at Chico Air Force...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

The Army Air Corps had so many people in the system that they had to figure out what to do with them so they created...

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