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Raymond Kaiser always mocked the P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft] as low and slow but he...

Gus Gikas was in India when he heard that the Germans had surrendered. Later, he heard of the Japanese surrender. Gikas...

On 28 August 1945, John Hever was sent by plane to Shanghai, China to work with the 10th Air Force that had taken over...

Gary Tate had the opportunity to work with the brother of General Claire Chennault while both of them served in their...

In Ledo, McNeil saw every type of wound. She worked on GIs and on Chinese patients. She worked in the Chinese ward for...

Joseph Silvia was born in April 1922 in Newport, Rhode Island. He was exposed to the military at age 12, by a soldier...

Basic training for Robert Lippman was in Miami Beach, Florida. He learned to salute, and dress right. He thinks he went...

Perry Garten was asked by the commander of the 1st Air Commando Group gliders at their assembly area at Lālāghāt if he...

William J. Pribyl was born in September 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland. He served in the Army as the Technical Executive...

Calvin F. Bannon's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he encountered Japanese Zero [Annotator's Note:...

Revis Haslett flew the Hump [Annotator's Note: the nickname given to the stretch of the Himalayas that American pilots...

Richard Cole was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1915. After graduating from high school he went to work on a farm for 75...

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