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Although trained in the PB-2A pursuit aircraft, John Alison was glad he did not have to go to war in it. Communication...

Crumps dad was making 90 cents an hour. A dime was a big difference in those days. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon and a...

Gus Gikas was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in April 1921. His dad was the town hat maker. Gikas moved to north Texas when...

Since he was a twin-engine pilot, Joseph McGuire had been told he would be a training pilot but was then reassigned to...

There were just a few Americans assigned to Samuel Spector's OSS Detachment 101 outfit. Some came and went, but there...

After the war was over, John Hever was sent into Shanghai, China. He said he went into the city a couple of times and...

The war made Harold Daniel Snyder a man. His time in the Army Air Corps was as good as two years in college. He learned...

At Morrison Army Airfield in Florida, Richard Notebaert's old crew broken up, and he was assigned to another crew that...

When Richard Cole returned to the United States he was stationed at an aircraft manufacturing plant. As the planes...

At daylight, Herbert Gross was alone after bailing out of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy...

After Marshall Burnett's induction at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Notes: Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi], he...

When Cleveland Peterson arrived in India there was a culture shock. There was also a physical shock as many of the men...

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