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Nuclear reactors were very crude things [Annotator's Note: when Archie Kelley started studying nuclear physics at the...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

James Bollich thinks there were radios in other camps [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camps], but not his. He got...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

Walter Groth was discharged in Texas. He turned in everything. The war was over. The war had ended when they got out....

The planes did not form up, instead they headed out one by one. They also did not go up to their normal cruising height...

John Singlaub had a specific OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, pre-runner of the Central...

Lester Caplan's decision to serve in World War 2 came out of his belief that it was a legitimate war, and America was...

Returning to Maui [Annotator's Note: returning to Maui, Hawaii from Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] was the first...

John Elliott made one more mission after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...

The next bad thing to happen was when Childers tried to fire at a Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese fighter aircraft],...

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