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Elmore Ruck used the G.I. Bill and attained a mechanical engineering degree after the war. He attends reunions but...

Initially training in single engine airplanes with an instructor, Robert Heller liked flying, but was a "little bit...

On 8 September 1942, Irving Baum entered the service and was sent to Camp Upton in Long Island, New York. Three days...

When Clarence Anderson returned from R and R [Annotator's Note: rest and relaxation or recuperation] he was ordered to...

Gerald Auerbach's most memorable experience of Word War 2 was the first incendiary raid over Tokyo [Annotator's Note:...

The theater of conflict he was going to be assigned to after training made no difference to Donald Albert Carlson. You...

John Noack was apparently knocked out momentarily when he was hit. Noack himself does not remember losing consciousness...

John W. Towle returned home to Tennessee and married his wife in May 1945. Although he had attended the same high...

William Howard flew a mission across the Channel [Annotator’s Note: English Channel] as his first mission. They bombed...

Carl Platkin was in military school on Pearl Harbor day [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

[Annotator's Note: Edward Nacey was flying for Air Transport Command out of Shanghai, China.] They were involved in a...

The training at Tuskegee was rigorous. There was a lot of hazing. Leahr believes that they were trained as good as...

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