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Samuel Spector was shipped to Burma and its jungles. He was among the first individuals to carry into action the...

Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan and Guilin, China as part of the 21st...

Esther McNeil grew up on a farm in western Pennsylvania. She was the sixth of eight children.After going into nursing...

Missions began to ramp down in May [Annotator's Note: May 1945, when the Japanese were pushed too far out of range of...

On arriving in Bombay, India [Annotator's Note: now Mumbai, India], Edward Denzler's group was taken to an airport...

Roy H. Matsumoto used his carbine [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic carbine] to drive back the enemy on...

Perry Garten flew a security mission with a colonel that ended up in China. It was an unexpected experience for Garten...

Cleveland Peterson heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor after boarding a ship in San Francisco, California...

Lawrence Eustis was on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] when he heard about VE-Day [...

Within hours any ship passing the destroyer escorts loaded with prisoners would receive prisoners from those destroyer...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...

William Martin had moments of terror flying every other day out of India. Once on the ground, it was okay. They had...

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