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Roy Uthes discovered that his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] was being sent to the...

Elmo Espree was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in September 1921. His family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1923...

Instead of heading into the mountains, the Chinese man took them to Canton. They spent several days in Canton. After...

David K. Hayward's first mission [Annotator's Note: 8 April 1943 with the 22nd Bombardment Squadron, 341st Bombardment...

The terrain and environment of the jungle [Annotator's Note: the jungle in Burma; now Myanmar] was terrible. They [...

Roy H. Matsumoto saw the city of Hiroshima [Annotator's Note: Hiroshima, Japan] after the war. It was flattened and...

Herbert Gross had trained on B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bombers. His new...

John Alison flew with Tex Hill [Annotator's Note: later Brigadier General David Lee Hill, known as Tex to friends and...

Harold Daniel Snyder [Annotator's Note: with the 71st Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force] had...

William Disanza refused an order one time. They asked them to knock off a group of Japs. They always scouted ahead to...

John Hever never saw any Japanese soldiers until after the war was over. They had no weapons, and were walking around...

[Annotator's Note: For pilots like Raymond Kaiser, combat tours went by time in China, instead of by number of missions...

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