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There were a lot of events that did not make a lasting impression on Crain. He cannot recall the troops he brought in...

In January 1944, Yellin was sent to Thunderbird Field in Arizona. That was where he took his primary training. He was...

Donald Dean was born in March 1926 in Salina, Kansas. His father was in the insurance business, and the family moved...

John Votrobeck likes to think the war did not change him. The training he went through honed his skills, particularly...

Andrew Leblanc joined the Army because most of his friends were in the Army. He did not pick the Navy because he did...

On Pavuvu Island [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu Island, Solomon Islands], a personnel officer told Wilfred Hanson [Annotator...

Kenneth A. Lafleur talks about his missions in the Philippines. His unit [Annotator's Note: 408th Bombardment Squadron...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

Ernest Cowell took a train from Fort Mason, California [Annotator's Note: in San Francisco, California], to Fort Lewis...

Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1922. Curley's father owned a railway...

David Heath was stationed near Henderson Field [Annotator's Note: American airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands...

When their training schedule was complete, James “Jim” R. Boyd and the rest of his squadron [Annotator’s Note: Motor...

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