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Harold Bergbower retired from the Air Force after 30 years of service. He enjoyed playing golf. He went to work at the...

Charles Struble learned about the atomic bombs being dropped after the aircraft returned [Annotator's Note: nuclear...

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

When Robert Rosendahl and his fellow survivors were told to destroy their weapons they threw them all out into the bay...

On 13 February 1943, they took off for a raid on Shortland Harbor [Annotator's Note: Shortland Harbor, Shortland Island...

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

William Jackson was first sent to Miami Beach [Annotator's Note: Miami Beach, Florida] following his induction. He...

Theodore Theodore's most memorable event of the war was being jumped by fighters while leaving Balikpapan [Annotator's...

During the surrender, James Bollich destroyed his weapons and threw them into the water. When he was falling back, he...

Russell Gackenbach was a member in one of the 15 crews officially assigned to the 509th, 393rd Bomb Squad [Annotator's...

Joseph F. McGee Junior was born in Utah, Alabama on 6 March 1924. He was standing in front of his town's post office...

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

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