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Clarence Lee Dobbs, known to his friends as Jack, was born in June 1925 in Dearborn, Michigan. He grew up there, and...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher was based on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: as a crewman on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy...

William Smith was in Australia for about two weeks. They pulled some shenanigans. He and his crew were sent to Brisbane...

Dupuy was rotated out after his escort missions on Truk. There was no system of rotation for pilots in the Pacific like...

Charles Wesley Borders and his fellow pilots all started at about the same time. They had three flights of 11 pilots,...

Paul Dietzel continued flying in civilian life after the war. When he would fly with the team, the pilots would...

Charles Kneflin had never seen anything like the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]....

William Schrader was born in February 1926 in Hollywood, Florida. An only child, his father moved the family to...

Robert G. Aldous and his crew were flying over Formosa [Annotator's Note: then the Republic of Formosa, present day...

Most of Nick Cristiano's bombing missions started in the evening. He would call the meal before leaving "the last...

Russell Gackenbach said that he would be part of the atomic bomb mission again if he was asked to do it. We were at war...

At the end of the war, Donald F. Goyette says, the United States could put 130 B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29...

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