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James Bollich had just gotten back from the movies when he heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

Thomas Paris learned about events by radio. He would write letters home. They had C-47s [Annotator’s Note: The Douglas...

Ben Kuroki’s B-24 outfit was called to North Africa to help out with the British forces who were going against Rommel....

Russell Gackenbach served in the Air Force as a navigator on B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...

Theodore Theodore was born in July 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the middle child of three children in the family. His...

Henry Ratcliff almost arrived home after his outfit did [Annotator's Note: 860th Aviation Engineer Battalion, 5th Air...

Clarence Becker was born in Rochester, New York one week after World War 1 ended, 18 November 1918. He was the fifth of...

Russell Gackenbach was born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His family was Pennsylvania Dutch. His father was...

Walter Atwood was born Lebanon, Kansas in February 1922. He grew up on a farm. He had to milk cows before and after...

James Bollich was liberated by the Russians. Near the end of the war, the Japanese put out an order for all POWs [...

Because the war in Europe had begun to die down and the need for additional pilots was decreasing by the time he...

A few minutes after 7:00 [Annotator's Note: 7:00 a.m., 7 December 1941] one of the plotters made some entries on the...

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