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

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

Once word came that they were shipping out, Robert Leese flew with his crew as a passenger, stopping for fuel in Fiji,...

Richard Baile was born in December 1920 on a farm in Missouri east of Kansas City near the town of Washburn. They had a...

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

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

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

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

The 71st Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] usually guarded...

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

For Robert Rosendahl, fear is what kept him going during the Bataan Death March. The Japanese were barbarians. Very few...

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

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