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Robert Liles made captain in 1942. In 1943 he was given command of the 16th Fighter Squadron. Before taking over the...

1 morning the prisoners were called out. They were usually called out every morning so the Japanese could do a head...

[Annotator's Note: Robert Liles served in the USAAF and flew Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft with the 16th...

In the hospital they were treated very nice and given so much food that they couldn't eat it all. There was also...

Edith Vancheri's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a soldier died in her arms [Annotator's Note: as a...

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

Roy H. Matsumoto went to work in a fruit stand after his high school graduation [Annotator's Note: in 1933]. Jobs were...

After Pearl Harbor, Herbert Gross was drafted. He had a brief basic training program. By August 1942, he had started...

Henderson begins the interview stating that he wouldn't be there if not for the actions of B-24 crewman.Henderson's...

David K. Hayward was born in May 1922 in San Francisco, California. When he was three, he moved to Pasadena, California...

Edward Denzler relates some amusing incidents that occurred while he was training the cavalry troopers, a job he...

At Langley airbase, John Alison switched over to P-36 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-36 Hawk] pursuit aircraft. In a...

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