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Snapp enjoyed flying the PQ-8. It had tricycle landing gear and it was fun and easy to land. It was highly maneuverable...

Raymond Downs was in the water for almost 20 hours with no food. On the horizon, he could see 27 shrimping boats. He...

For Tom Thurman [Annotator's Note: American filmmaker], "December 7" [Annotator's Note: "December 7: The Movie," 1943...

James Jeter was born in Jetertown, Louisiana [Annotator’s Note: near Leesville, Louisiana]. It was a small settlement...

Men returning from the Pacific would come in for R...

Fredrick Hollis did not witness much family talk about the conflict during World War 2. Some of his relatives served in...

Blaine Kern served in the Army for about two years. When he returned home, he was in a camp in California. In 1947, he...

Norma Jean Ford Beard was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in June 1944. Her father was a B-24 pilot [Annotator's Note:...

Peggy Upham went to work at the Columbus Plant of Curtiss-Wright [Annotator's Note: Curtiss-Wright Airplane Division of...

Walter Imahara was born in February 1937 in Florin, California, a farming community just outside of Sacramento. His...

Mildred "Jean" Liparoto was born in Vincennes, Indiana in 1919. Her mother was 19 and her father was a widower with two...

Betty Peak had one thing happen that made her life enjoyable. She met a service officer from World War 2. He had flown...

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