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On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

The crew left from San Francisco, California, and Theodore Theodore remembers that during the overnight flight the...

Wesley Carroll and his wife raised three children. Their first son, James Stephen, was born in 1948 and was adopted by...

Russell Gackenbach had his Army Air Forces basic training in Florida. There were not enough uniforms for the recruits...

[Annotator's Note: Clarence Becker was already serving in the Army Air Forces when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor,...

James Bollich's younger brother never made it overseas. One brother died in a fighter pilot accident and the other died...

Howard Cain sailed across the Pacific on a troop ship to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was assigned to...

Charles Watkins Adair went into the infantry in the signal corps [Annotator's Note: US Army Signal Corps, after being...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

Milton L. McMullen, Sr. was in Hawaii until 1 December [Annotator's Note: 1 December 1941]. He was then transferred to...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. remained in the reserves after the war so that he could depart active service earlier. He...

By the time Kenneth A. Lafleur had enough points to go home, he had flown 41 missions in the Pacific. Lafleur remarked...

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