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Russell Gackenbach served in the Air Force as a navigator on B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...

[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

When Richard Cole returned to the United States he was stationed at an aircraft manufacturing plant. As the planes...

Floyd Annas was born in March 1925 in Granite Falls, North Carolina. He moved to a farm when he was 12 years old. Annas...

With his orders in hand, Robert Leese left New Guinea by way of Nadzab and Finschhafen, and sailed on a transport ship...

John Caudle did not have a lot of notice when he was called to active duty. He came home after work one Friday and had...

Because the war in Europe had begun to die down and the need for additional pilots was decreasing by the time he...

Ben Steele worked two miles underground in a Japanese coal mine. It was very tight because of the way the ground...

[Annotator's Note: Richard Baile served in the USAAF as a flight engineer on B-29 bombers in the 9th Bombardment Group...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...

Frederick Haack [Annotator's Note: a cargo pilot] flew to Sacramento [Annotator's Note: Sacramento, California] where...

When they left the ground they were going a little under 80 miles per hour. The ship was making about 20 knots and...

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