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Thomas W. Stevenson, Jr. was born in 1922 in Brownsville, Texas. He grew up with one sister and two brothers. During...

Barney Old Coyote started flying in December 1943. After he completed his missions, he was able to wait around for his...

William Fili enlisted a few days after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: a sergeant with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division serving in Italy] was...

After being classified for pilot training, Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. took his primary flight training at Oxnard Army Air...

In basic training David Dennis went to school first. His basic training was the normal marching and learning their gun...

Freddie Ohr notes that another day LeMay [Annotators Note: USAAF then USAF General Curtis LeMay] landed and was looking...

Arthur Smith says that when they were sinking Japanese luggers [Annotator's Note: slang for cargo ships], the often...

A lot Darrell Welch's colleagues [Annotator’s Note: fellow fighter pilots] did not make it. Some wound up in prison...

Merrill J. Clark thinks it is important from an educational standpoint that the museum [Annotator's Note: The National...

Raymond Burchell started smelling flesh. He thought maybe an air raid was happening. They could not see smoke. As they...

Vernon Baker went to Camp Wolters, Texas for basic training and experienced segregation. He got onto a bus when he...

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