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Robert Liles attributes his success as a fighter pilot to the leadership he had in China from the general [Annotator's...

Chris Daley was sent to Los Angeles, California for administrative training for three months. Then he was transferred...

Berle Wheeler was a veteran of the China-Burma-India Theater as a member of the 967th Engineers [Annotator's Note:...

When they finally stopped they were a couple feet away from a hut. The next morning there were people working on the...

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...

In Iraq, John Alison spotted a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] flying overhead. He...

On a rainy day William Disanza would work around the house. He did a variety of odd jobs with odd solutions and trick...

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

Gus Gikas was in India when he heard that the Germans had surrendered. Later, he heard of the Japanese surrender. Gikas...

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

Samuel Spector recalled hearing of the war in Europe ending and the atomic bombs being dropped. He was in Burma when he...

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