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Dale Bates wanted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps and enrolled in college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon...

Chester Hollingsworth did not have much fun in basic training. The trainees were assigned ten to a tent. Besides...

Richard T. Russell, Jr. did his first missions into China and Formosa [Annotator's Note: modern day Taiwan]. They had...

The planes all arrived about the same time. They then steamed north.The men knew that the Japanese had sent an armada...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Werner what in his childhood in Austria made him what he is today and...

Meda Royce Hall was a Ground School Gunnery Instructor at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida when America went...

Samuel Hadjinian was sent to Manila, the Philippines to join the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion after being drafted...

[Annotator's Note: The audio and video freeze throughout this clip.] In August 1943, Leo Bednarczyk sailed down the...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewee pauses the interview several times, struggles to remember events, and repeats statements...

Emil Kesselman went through boot camp in Samson, New York [Annotator’s Note: after enlisting in the US Navy in November...

[Annotator’s Note: Talking and other noises are audible in the background of this segment.] After the Americans secured...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

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