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When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...

Ben Kuroki learned that it did not matter that he had flown 30 missions, or that he had a chest full of ribbons. An...

Crump had enrolled as a draftsman in the local aircraft plant but in the meantime several of the shipyards had posted...

Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

Walter Broll benefited by the war because it made him an alert man instead of the 18 year old minor he was when he...

John Singlaub returned to Kunming and was met by an officer at the airplane. Orders were received from OSS [Annotator's...

Alex Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group was...

Joseph Brannan was changed by the Second World War. He had started college prior to the war, but was not enthusiastic...

Ben Kuroki was amazed that he only saw one Japanese Zero [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, also known...

Crumps dad was making 90 cents an hour. A dime was a big difference in those days. Gasoline was 10 cents a gallon and a...

Wicker was not fast enough so his buddy would help him swim along in the water [Annotators Note: during the attack on...

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