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Tyler feels Pearl Harbor was a strategic error of the Japanese. Over night people were lining up to enlist. After the...

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

Theodore Theodore was born in July 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, the middle child of three children in the family. His...

Clarence Becker was born in Rochester, New York one week after World War 1 ended, 18 November 1918. He was the fifth of...

Russell Gackenbach was born in 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His family was Pennsylvania Dutch. His father was...

James Bollich was liberated by the Russians. Near the end of the war, the Japanese put out an order for all POWs [...

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

Robert G. Aldous and his crew flew many missions to Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic of Formosa; present day Taiwan...

[Annotator's Note: Running water can be heard throughout segment.] Alfred A. Lingo returned from the Aleutian Islands...

Yellin recalls how he had a close call with a fellow pilot. From that point on Yellin did not trust that man and would...

Bombing Japan was a joint effort, according to Donald F. Goyette. He remembers loading bombs onto his squadron's [...

[Annotator's Note: Malcolm Ernest was a prisoner of war at Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria; present day China.] Ernest...

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