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Stewart Bass was excited and nervous to fly his first combat mission. He soon calmed down, followed his training and...

On 7 December 1941, Alfred Raymond was sleeping and someone came and woke him up to tell him that the Japanese had...

Louis J. Armentaro was drafted even though he wanted to go prove himself. They told him he was underweight and would...

Theodore Robert Tanner was born in Portland, Oregon in December 1920. He had one younger sister, born two years after...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Robert Marich was born in January 1923 in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 16, his family moved to Beloit, Wisconsin. A...

Jack Skaggs worked on roads in Shanghai as a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war]. The POWs could take food out to...

Lowell Rodrigue and his crew [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Zeilin (APA-3)] picked up some Marine troops and brought...

Asked what he thought about the Japanese at the time, Frederick Stent said he thought they were "foolish" to be...

James Warren David was born in Youngsville, Louisiana in January 1926. During the Great Depression, his father and...

Robert Taylor arrived in Samoa in April 1942. The Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] campaign...

Burton Johnson arrived in Finschafen, New Guinea in the South Pacific after completing his stateside training. This was...

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