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John Alison was requested to pick up a P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft] and fly it to...

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

Joel Varner had no desire to stay in the Army Air Forces. He wanted an education. He went right back to college. He got...

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

Robert Offenbacher was born in Lima, Ohio in September 1922. He had five brothers. He was a twin and one brother was...

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

Samuel Spector was always hungry in the jungle with Detachment 101. The food that was airdropped would not last long so...

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

Berle Wheeler experienced Japanese air raids but slit trenches protected him from the attacks [Annotator's Note: he was...

Lester Shapiro did not know anything about getting a Bronze Star [Annotator's Note: the Bronze Star Medal is the fourth...

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

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

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