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Mason Brownell Fitch determined that radar was very important when flying missions into Japan. The terrain was much...

Leo Denault finished school in June and went into the service on 16 August 1943. He went to basic training in Gulfport...

Charles Wesley Borders served for about two months in the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1943. He and five others were sent...

Yellin taxied and saw mounds of Japanese bodies [Annotator's Note: on Iwo Jima]. Bulldozers were pushing the bodies...

Another incident James Morehead felt worth recounting happened when he was flying a protection flight while other...

Hersey Goodwin does not remember his first mission [Annotator's Note: with the 11th Bombardment Group, 7th Air Force]....

Keith Kiefer feels the advent of nuclear weapons is a double-edged sword. Had they not been invented, there is very...

Paul Dietzel flew from the Hawaiian Islands over Kwajalein to Tinian. During the flight they had not had anything to...

[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, New Guinea. He was rescued and...

James Patterson remembers classification was the hardest part of becoming a cadet. They were considered privates as far...

Bruno S. Rinas was born in Towner County, North Dakota, in January 1919. He had 12 siblings, but two died in infancy,...

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

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