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Russell Gackenbach was briefed either at 11 or 12 o'clock prior to the mission. [Annotator's Note: The mission being...

Howard Cain was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in November 1926. At age seven, the family moved to Chicago [Annotator’s...

Russell Gackenbach participated in the dropping of the second atomic bomb. On that mission, he was the navigator on the...

In 1944 as a senior in high school, Howard Cain avoided the draft by enlisting in the Army Air Force. He was gung-ho...

John Caudle was born in January 1926 in a farmhouse in Farmington [Annotator's Note: Farmington, North Carolina]. It...

Clarence Becker was on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] when the war ended and the treaty was signed [...

Rex James Bates was assigned to the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron at Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma. The squadron...

Dupuy and his flight were coming back from Kyushu [Annotators Note: Japanese main island]. One of their pilots had...

Ben Steele was told the war was over by a Japanese officer. At first, the Americans did not believe him, but American B...

Frederick Haack was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York in 1920] and grew up in Wyoming where...

By the time the United States dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Robert Leese had completed his...

Mason Brownell Fitch views the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on...

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