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Yellin had to fly the next day after he bailed out in the ocean. He notes that the P-40 was a great airplane. There was...

One afternoon they were taken to a railroad station and put on a train but were not told where they were going. The...

After one patrol during which he was carrying a heavy BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle], Richard...

Melvin S. Tanenbaum hated the Japanese during the war. They made sneak attacks with no warning. It was a blessing to...

Keith Kiefer was born in January 1957 in Longview, Texas. In school, he did not get taught about World War 2 until...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when it was announced that the war was over. He...

When Jones arrived at Eglin he knew most of the pilots and many of the airmen. Soon, everyone got to know each other....

Albert Simon went to school until to the seventh grade. He had to go to work on the farm in the third grade. He had to...

One time that scared William Beaman happened when the USS Flasher (SS-249) was firing electric torpedoes. They were...

While preparing the West Virginia [Annotator's Note: the USS West Virginia (BB-48)] to go into drydock, Archie Kelley...

James Thomas Womack arrived in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] around 1941. He was on patrol duty...

Church had different responsibilities on Guam. His first assignment was to handle anything to do with recreation....

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