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At 19 Thatcher finished high school and enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on December 3rd, 1940. Thatcher was sworn in...

Fiske Hanley II [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force] was...

Nick Cristiano enlisted in the Army Air Corps because he wanted to be a pilot. He took the exams. He went to Greensboro...

Theodore Robert Tanner flew six missions in a P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft], but never...

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

[Annotator's Note: There is static noise in the audio throughout clip.] It took Richard R. Ruess 13 hours to fly to...

Bruno S. Rinas believes that had the Americans been given better training and equipment, they would have held out...

Bruno S. Rinas remained in Mariveles [Annotator's Note: Mariveles, Luzon, Philippines] for a day before being marched...

James Patterson and his crew flew over water for several hours before doing their mapping work. Their missions ran...

During the war, Aaron Baumgarten worried less about meeting up with the Japanese than he was of coming to a bad end...

Lawrence Wulf enlisted in the US Army Air Force. He was sent to Victory Field in Vernon, Texas. His instructor was...

Returning to discuss his other assignments all over the globe, John McGlohon conceded that the Aleutian Islands was not...

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