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John Hever was born in 1924 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was the second of four children and the only boy....

Raymond Kaiser was taken on a mission by his CO [Annotator's Note: commanding officer]. He asked why he was taking him...

[Annotator's Note: For pilots like Raymond Kaiser, combat tours went by time in China, instead of by number of missions...

Roy Uthes was in Myitkyinā when word was received about the end of the war with Japan. After the war he was flown out...

In Ledo, McNeil saw every type of wound. She worked on GIs and on Chinese patients. She worked in the Chinese ward for...

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

Assigned to the 1st Battalion[Annotator's Note: the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) was known as Merrill's...

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

[Annotator's Note: Newton Dana was born in 1924 in Trenton, New Jersey.] Newton Dana grew up with a large extended...

On his 22nd mission, Herbert Gross bailed out over French Indochina in Japanese territory. It took eight days to walk...

Richard Cole was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1915. After graduating from high school he went to work on a farm for 75...

Cleveland Peterson's most memorable experience was being close to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. During the...

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