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Alvin Callender was based at Shrewsbury, England, and he recalled one afternoon when the sky filled with Spitfires [...

Henderson flew as a tail gunner on a B-17 [Annotators Note: American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber] until his last...

Howard Anderson finally had enough training and was assigned to an 11 man crew. His commander had flown many different...

Cleveland Peterson made the trip home aboard a Liberty ship. He had flown to Calcutta first, then rode a British train...

Frank R. Burnside [Annotator's Note: worked ferrying planes as a pilot stateside with the 4th Ferrying Group, and then...

Shanghai [Annotator's Note: Shanghai, China] had been a big military base for the Japanese. Joel Varner went into the...

The last time Richard Cole saw the old man [Annotator's Note: USAF General James H. Doolittle] was in 1992. Several of...

Raymond Kaiser was born in Brooklyn [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs in New York, New York] in...

George Rudloff felt like the Japanese had to be killed. The atrocities committed by the Japanese military were very bad...

Dr. Albert Habeeb was assigned to the Eastern Flying Training Command in Camden, South Carolina as a flight surgeon. He...

Joseph McGuire went on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] to Bombay [Annotator'...

Since the unit Gus Gikas led was intended to replace another unit in India that had been deployed for two years, their...

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