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Jack Leaming and his SBD pilot had just completed their bombing run on Marcus Island when the antiaircraft fire became...

The closer Carey Suratt got to Japan, the more aggressive things became. On his second trip to Leyte, the 459 [...

When they arrived at Pearl Harobr, Air Group 6 needed one more run before they rotated home. During the trip to Truk...

Wallace Edward Spencer, originally Wallace Smigirow, was born in Woodside, New York in October 1925. He has one older...

After liberation [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...

To fill personnel losses resulting from accidents and combat, Richard Baile's crew was broken up. He was made the...

Howard Hart was born in Saint Louis in 1938. His father was a mining engineer in the Philippines prior to the war. His...

James Oney left New Caledonia at midnight with a destroyer escort. They arrived three days later in the Russell Islands...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Smith where he was when he heard the news of the atomic bombs being...

Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

When the grenade blew Quintana off the hill he does not remember if it knocked him unconscious but he does remember...

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