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Samuel Spector recalled hearing of the war in Europe ending and the atomic bombs being dropped. He was in Burma when he...

The 792nd Military Police Battalion was subdivided and Roy Uthes was assigned to the 209th Engineer Combat Battalion [...

Henderson flew as a tail gunner on a B-17 [Annotators Note: American B-17 Flying Fortress bomber] until his last...

Harold Daniel Snyder was assigned to one of the veteran gunners for training. After that gunner shipped back out,...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Kaiser served in the US Army Air forces as a pilot flying Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter...

[Annotator's Note: Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was assigned to the Red Combat Team, 1st Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit (...

Cleveland Peterson's most memorable experience was being close to Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked. During the...

After Pearl Harbor, Herbert Gross was drafted. He had a brief basic training program. By August 1942, he had started...

All of the Catholic school teachers were nuns. They were not married. High school teachers in Iowa were required to be...

Frank R. Burnside [Annotator’s Note: as a pilot with the 1st Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), 20th Air Force based out...

Robert Lippman was born in Rome, New York in September 1923, in a small town surrounded by farmland. His father had a...

On 28 August 1945, John Hever was sent by plane to Shanghai, China to work with the 10th Air Force that had taken over...

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