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Edward Bruce Jennings remembers that on their way to Japan, a typhoon came up. The ships had to get out of the bay to...

Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...

Hersey Goodwin does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 11th Bombardment Group, 7th Air Force]....

Louis Block graduated from high school in June 1944. They discussed the war, but not at length. They were more focused...

Cass Phillips got into a ferry squadron after he returned home. He flew all kinds of planes he never could before. He...

Morton William Werner was born in February 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a middle-class home. His...

Jack Yusen grew up in Queens, New York where he lived with his parents, brother and grandmother and was living there...

Giles Bacon remained at Merritt Island for five months before transferring to Quantico, Virginia. He then transferred...

Donald Hoff's plane was not bothered [Annotator's Note: by Japanese fighters during the second strike of the Battle of...

Abraham Rosenzweig joined the US Coast Guard in October [Annotator’s Note: of 1942] and left in January 1943. His...

Stewart Bass never crashed a plane but discusses an incident in Opa-locka, Florida when he was a aboard a TBM [...

Louis Burg initially wanted to fly planes in the military, but his family did not want him to. His mother tore up his...

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