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Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 3
Alexander Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...
Famularo, Salvatore Wounded in Action
Salvatore Famularo was at the Amphitheater [Annotator’s Note: a terrain feature on Iwo Jima, Japan] which was a big...
Dietzel, Paul Curtis LeMay and Very Long Missions
Around the time Paul Dietzel flew his first mission, General Curtis LeMay had gone to the Pacific to take over the 20th...
McMullen, Milton End of the War
Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...
Lafleur, Richard The Japanese People
Richard Lafleur [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty with 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division] got acquainted...
Burgin, Romus "R.V." Postwar Life and Family
Romus Valtin Burgin worked with a contact officer from the VA [Annotator's Note: Veterans Administration] named Frank...
Denault, Leo Flight Training
Leo Denault remembers they would post every day who qualified. [Annotator’s Note: He was in training in Santa Ana,...
Mittleman, Harvey City Boy to Seabee
Harvey Mittleman was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York City, New York] in May 1925. Mittleman and his...
Renstrom, Keith Boot Camp, Deploying to Iceland, and Making PFC
The training Marines receive is to make sure that they are always ready. After boot camp, Keith Renstrom went into...
Nicholas, John Early Life
John Nicholas was born in Marysville, Michigan in December 1924. He grew up in Marysville with his half brother and...
Townsend, Joseph Newspaper Routes
Joseph Townsend was born in April 1926 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He grew up in Shreveport. He had two brothers and two...
Ruess, Richard Becoming a Navigator
After about five weeks of pilot school and 20 solo hours [Annotator's Note: at the Allen Hancock College of Aeronautics...

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