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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Dye what his reaction to the news of the atomic bombs being dropped on...

James Roy Colquitt had his Navy boot camp training at San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California]. He was...

Louis Block was born in December 1926 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up and went to school there. He lost his mother at...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...

James Bowie knew the war was still going on when he was going home. Many of the men had war souvenirs. They were told...

Mort Oman [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 251st Field Artillery Battalion as a fire controller] took part in the...

Clarence Strobel’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was serving in the honor guard for General MacArthur [...

[Annotator's Note: Wendall Woodall served in the US Army Air Forces as a blister gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress...

William Lansford continued training while he was in Hawaii waiting for the Raiders who had carried out the raid on...

Showers spent the entire war working in communications and intelligence, in direct collaboration with Admiral Nimitz [...

In Combat Intelligence school they learned to analyze and creep up on Japanese emplacements, the types of troops, type...

The Japanese hit their fuel supplies and it caused a lot of damage [Annotator's Note: on Wake Island on 8 December 1941...

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