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Once word came that they were shipping out, Robert Leese flew with his crew as a passenger, stopping for fuel in Fiji,...

The B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] appealed to William Smith as an airplane. The...

Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...

Selwyn Gilmore came back to the United States aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced...

Keith Kiefer was taught about World War 2 in school. The Russians were framed as a stand-offish ally. There was not a...

Theodore Robert Tanner was in the Philippines when the nuclear bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

Leo Denault was discharged on 10 March 1946. He came back on a troop carrier ship. It took seven days. It was awful. He...

Thatcher watched and was actually in a few of the B-25's that were practicing taking off from a short runway. It gave...

In early 1945, after completing missions in the Philippines, Richard R. Ruess' squadron [Annotator's Note: 4th...

Joseph DeMott worked in the farming fields, dug trenches, and built fences as a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in...

The 71st Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] usually guarded...

There were four parallel 9,000 foot runways [Annotator's Note: on Tinian]. Paul Dietzel's group was at the far end. One...

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