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At 19 Thatcher finished high school and enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on December 3rd, 1940. Thatcher was sworn in...

After gunnery training, Clarence Lee "Jack" Dobbs was sent to a staging area in Lincoln, Nebraska, then to Harvard,...

When Charles Wesley Borders was not flying, he had some reading material and records. They would also play ball. There...

Clyde Barnhart was assigned to the 20th Air Force at the Overseas Replacement Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Some of...

Paul Dietzel is very proud of his service during World War 2. When he first came to LSU he was 30 years old. He did not...

The first thing Charles Kneflin saw when he flew over Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], were the biggest...

Arnold A. Mirsky was born in November 1918 and was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were immigrants of Russia...

Robert G. Aldous flew from Canton Island [Annotator's Note: Canton Island, Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati] to...

When Donald F. Goyette first landed on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands], conditions were fairly rough...

When Nick Cristiano got to the prison camp, he was given a paper to fill out. He only would put name, rank, serial...

Bruno S. Rinas believes that had the Americans been given better training and equipment, they would have held out...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. and his crew [Annotator's Note: flying a Consolidated B-24 Liberator with the 43rd Bombardment...

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