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

Roy H. Matsumoto did not realize he had been assigned to OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services;...

Lawrence Eustis was drafted into the Army Air Corps on 20 July 1942 and sent to Alexandria, Louisiana for his...

When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was transferred to Kunming [Annotator's Note: Kunming, China] followed by an assignment to the...

Brooks was just past 20 years old when he first entered the Navy. When he came back home it was like coming back to...

Before he graduated, Harold Daniel Snyder went to enlist in the Army Air Corps with three others. His parents did not...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Kaiser completed his pilot training and flew out of Miami, Florida for his next assignment...

Courtland Claus used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

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

Henderson flew as a tail gunner on a B-17 [Annotators Note: American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber] until his last...

Gus Gikas and his unit spent six weeks in North Africa, mainly in training exercises simulating shipboard problems that...

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