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Recalling when his aircraft was hit over Tunis, Tunisia, Alvin Callender said he was in combat with German Focke-Wulf...

Roy H. Matsumoto was within the perimeter of Nhpum Ga [Annotator's Note: Nhpum Ga, Burma; present day Myanmar] for...

Gary Tate had the opportunity to work with the brother of General Claire Chennault while both of them served in their...

In September Henderson was on a flight to China as navigator. He was with a crew that had to bail out on the flight...

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

Joel Varner flew P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft] in his initial training. He had been...

Lester Shapiro was born in October 1921 in Rochester, New York. He went as a walk-on for a scholarship at the...

Revis Haslett flew the Hump [Annotator's Note: the nickname given to the stretch of the Himalayas that American pilots...

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

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

Lawrence Eustis did not use the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944,...

Herbert Saylor was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in September 1925. He was brought up during the Depression [Annotator'...

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