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Gus Gikas considered enlistment to be good for him. Being an amateur radio operator, Gikas could fix just about any...

Lawrence Eustis was commander of the 11th Photo Lab which was attached to the 40th Bombardment Group which flew B-29s [...

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

Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

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

Returning to the United States on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], Richard...

Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...

The next day after a good sleep, the Herbert Gross and his shipmate left the village at dawn [Annotator's Note: after...

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

The last time Richard Cole saw the old man [Annotator's Note: USAF General James H. Doolittle] was in 1992. Several of...

Alvin Callender was born in 1918 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Before he joined the military, he was a student at...

Alvin Callender was based at Shrewsbury, England, and he recalled one afternoon when the sky filled with Spitfires [...

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