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During the second Truk raid Alexander Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group...

The USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) sailed among several Pacific Islands, and Elmer Spraker admitted that he was a little...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

Alvin Sniff was born in March 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. When the war started, he quit school and went to work in...

Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...

When Edmund Aziz and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Reeves (DE-156)] returned to Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk,...

Glenn Frazier was selected for the Tayabas road detail in the Tayabas area of southeast Luzon [Annotator's Note: in the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley to talk about Nasugbu, Philippines.] They came out of Luzon [...

Leo Denault remembers they would post every day who qualified. [Annotator’s Note: He was in training in Santa Ana,...

Mason Brownell Fitch flew five missions before Curtis LeMay [Annotator's Note: Curtis Emerson LeMay; US Army Air Forces...

Leisey's father was a railroad worker and his mother was a garment worker. They survived the Great Depression by...

One night, as Richard Jaccarino was sleeping under his poncho, the Japanese counterattack began. Just below their...

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