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Walter Nelson used to fly out into the fog near the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Sometimes he flew underneath the Bay...

Asked how he got a Japanese flag, Holly Rees said that nearly every enemy soldier carried one folded up on top of the...

William Hall had bad things happen to him but he never turned religious until he was in Vietnam. At that point in his...

Judge Gordon Thompson recalled preparing for the invasion of mainland Japan in the Leyte Gulf, Philippines. He recalled...

Don Daniels became friends with men he served with. He only stayed in touch with three or four by exchanging Christmas...

Robert Lewter was inducted in Georgia. From there he got on a train to Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort...

Carroll George was on a transport ship that made tremendous voyages, two to the Far East and one to the Mediterranean,...

Paul J. Murphy was born in Chillicothe, Missouri. He graduated from high school in 1943 and was immediately drafted...

Charles Graves Chauncey's aircraft was named "Goin' Jessie" with a mean-looking rabbit for the nose art. He recalled...

James Pringle signed up to fight in the war. The majority of them [Annotator's Note: Black Americans] had. It was not...

Soon after returning home, Philip Mayer went to work and did not use the G.I. Bill for school. He became a truck driver...

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins after a break with Garland Bath mid-sentence.] They [Annotator's Note: 483rd...

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