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William Scott Stroud's [Annotator's Note: Stroud was shot down on his first mission in the Pacific, survived ten days...

Charles Brooks saw purple flak on his first combat mission off the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6...

Gerald Kynett was born in December 1925 in Media, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, right outside...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] headed north on the Bataan Death March [Annotator's Note:...

Charles Watkins Adair wonders if the United States has the will to do what needs to be done today. Back then [Annotator...

Their kickoff point was Finschhafen [Annotator's Note: Finschhafen, Papua New Guinea], and when the time came, Leo V....

Alfred Rodrigues identified Japanese aircraft by the large circles on their wings. It was Sunday and he had just sat...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] and his fellow...

Harold Whitaker went overseas in 1949. He was at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan when the Korean War began. After the...

John E. Johnson was born in Houston, Mississippi in December 1926, and lived there until he was six years old. During...

[Annotator's Note: Harold DeForest served in the Army as a gunner on a 60mm mortar in Company A, 1st Battalion, 129th...

Yellin had to fly the next day after he bailed out in the ocean. He notes that the P-40 was a great airplane. There was...

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