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Their first dive bombing mission was a railroad trestle in Burma. Henderson lined up over his bomb sight. He dropped...

Berle Wheeler was sent to Camp Robinson, Arkansas for 13 weeks of boot camp. He was then sent to Camp Gordon in Augusta...

At daylight, Herbert Gross was alone after bailing out of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy...

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

Revis Haslett initially wanted to join the Marines but went into the Army Air Forces instead. He was working with a...

Courtland Claus used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...

Lester Shapiro did not know anything about getting a Bronze Star [Annotator's Note: the Bronze Star Medal is the fourth...

Crump stayed in the shipyard for the better part of a year. They had launched about 14 ships. The launching details had...

John Symons was in Karachi, India and assigned to the 25th Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 25th Fighter Squadron,...

When Robert H. "Bob" Harris was sent to instructor school in Montgomery [Annotator's Note: Maxwell Fieild, now Maxwell...

Herbert Clyde Saylor's [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group,...

While in Burma, Herbert Auerbach saw American transport aircraft resupply Allied troops with airdrops. Bags of rice...

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