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All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...

Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

John Singlaub had a specific OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, pre-runner of the Central...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...

Ben Kuroki learned that it did not matter that he had flown 30 missions, or that he had a chest full of ribbons. An...

Crump had enrolled as a draftsman in the local aircraft plant but in the meantime several of the shipyards had posted...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

Walter Broll benefited by the war because it made him an alert man instead of the 18 year old minor he was when he...

John Singlaub returned to Kunming and was met by an officer at the airplane. Orders were received from OSS [Annotator's...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

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