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Gus Gikas considered enlistment to be good for him. Being an amateur radio operator, Gikas could fix just about any...

William Disanza was in the Boy Scouts as a kid but it did not prepare him for Burma. Disanza had originally joined the...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, 5th Air...

After one mission, Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th...

Lester Shapiro left the United States from California. Ninety percent of the men got seasick on the boat. When he left...

Berle Wheeler arrived with his outfit [Annotator's Note: 967th Engineer Maintenance Company] at Ledo, India. Camp was...

Cleveland Peterson heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor after boarding a ship in San Francisco, California...

Herbert Gross and his surviving fellow Vitamin P [Annotator's Note: Vitamin P was the name of the Consolidated B-24...

McNeil reported to Fort Belvoir [Annotator's Note: Fort Belvoir, Virginia] but that was too close to Washington D.C....

Herbert Saylor was drafted shortly after graduating from high school. His father and sister brought Saylor to the train...

Since he was a twin-engine pilot, Joseph McGuire had been told he would be a training pilot but was then reassigned to...

The barracks were about two or three miles from the fields. Sometimes John Symons walked there. They had A, B, and C...

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