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Gus Gikas was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in April 1921. His dad was the town hat maker. Gikas moved to north Texas when...

Sherman was going to hit a target on Formosa. They took off and flew practically at sea level. When they got back to...

A Jewish boy joined Harold Daniel Snyder's group [Annotator's Note: 71st Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group,...

At daylight, Herbert Gross was alone after bailing out of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy...

Howard Anderson soon found out General LeMay [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Major General, later United States...

When Calvin F. Bannon returned home from his tour overseas [Annotator's Note: with the 10th Combat Cargo Squadron, 3rd...

When Robert H. "Bob" Harris was sent to instructor school in Montgomery [Annotator's Note: Maxwell Fieild, now Maxwell...

[Annotator's Note: For pilots like Raymond Kaiser, combat tours went by time in China, instead of by number of missions...

John Alison’s duties also resulted in him being a glider pilot despite never having flown one before. He flew a glider...

Edward Moore Penick Sr. was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in January 1922. Penick graduated from Little Rock High...

Joseph Silvia was stationed in Tezpur, India as a teletype operator [Annotator's Note: with the 1347th Army Air Force...

Assigned to the 1st Battalion[Annotator's Note: the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) was known as Merrill's...

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