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On the evening of 28 February [Annotator's Note: 28 February 1942] they left the area they had been fighting in and...

At the end of the war, Elmo Espree was transported through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean...

While in India, Grant Jiro Hirabayashi worked as a translator for the British Air Force after being in Burma [Annotator...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...

Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...

William Disanza was in one group of guys but they had multiple outfits in Burma. There was an outfit called the 101...

Herbert Clyde Saylor [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, 10th...

Samuel Spector joined the United States Army Air Forces as a pilot trainee but he did not pass the advanced pilot...

Gus Gikas considered enlistment to be good for him. Being an amateur radio operator, Gikas could fix just about any...

In June 1943, Joseph McGuire was sent to India. The day before he left, his colonel admitted he had been trying to keep...

Henderson's outfit was hit by enemy fighters pretty heavy on one mission. His plane was not hit. It was a long mission...

John Hever noted that when they got to Seattle, Washington, there was no parade. The returning soldiers and sailors...

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