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When Orville Carroll arrived at Northwest Field on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], the Marines had...

During the war, Aaron Baumgarten worried less about meeting up with the Japanese than he was of coming to a bad end...

In Sacramento Jones checked Doolittle out. Doolittle had selected as his crew, the crew of one of the pilots who had...

Charles Graves Chauncey was born in April 1923 in Chanute, Kansas. He went through the school system, went to Kansas...

Thomas Paris learned about events by radio. He would write letters home. They had C-47s [Annotator’s Note: The Douglas...

Charles Struble learned about the atomic bombs being dropped after the aircraft returned [Annotator's Note: nuclear...

Lloyd Guillory and the other new pilots were told that they would initially train in P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

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

On 6 August 1945, Russell Gackenbach was ordered on a special mission to Japan. At three o’clock in the morning, his...

In Auckland, New Zealand, Wesley Carroll “got a virus or something,” and ended up in the hospital. He was sent back to...

Camp O'Donnell [Annotator's Note: Camp O'Donnell prisoner of war camp, Luzon, Philippines] was closed and James Bollich...

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