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From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

Living aboard the USS Enterprise was tough. Feightner slept in a hammock under a 5 inch gun mount. Other pilots bunked...

Wiley noted that there were no other survivors of his plane. His wingman returned to the Enterprise [Annotator's Note:...

Harold Beal thought the English were nice people. They would travel up and down the coast to practice making landings....

There were always air raids to deal with, according to Arthur Davis, during his duty in the Pacific. The Japanese...

Dale Smith was born in Ontario, California in March 1925. His great grandfather moved there in 1892 and was a founder....

They went to the South Pacific to the Solomons [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. The ship was pretty crowded.At Mare...

When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

On his first tour, Feightner was officially credited with 4 kills but he knows he shot down 12. Feightner shot down 31...

Wiley was put into a shack and slept the night there. That night he met the Chief of the tribe and was taken to a...

Arthur Kuhn was born in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Hammond, Indiana. He grew up with one brother. His...

Sidney Maiten was born in September 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. He enjoyed his early life there. He delivered...

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