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Assigned as a B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] pilot, Eben Smith arrived first in...

Harry Carlson feels his most eventful missions were the nighttime missions over Japan. They were frightening at times...

Dr. Sharon Estill Taylor was born in March 1945 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. When she was born, her father [Annotator's Note...

Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

In July 1943, Charles A. Waller joined the Marine Corps and went to boot camp. Waller was made a squad leader in...

In late summer 1944, a German military captain was housed in Elvira Maria Katarina Algermissen Leskovec's family home [...

Barbara Stables was born in November 1926 in Mobile, Alabama. They were not affected too much by the Depression [...

Daniel J. Lennon's father had cancer so he received special permission to see him before he died. In November 1944,...

For Archibald Higgins, being away from family and friends was not easy during his service. It took a tough toll on his...

After graduating from Alcee Fortier high school, New Orleans, Louisiana, Thomas Wicker attended Tulane University, New...

James Fitzmorris grew up in Depression-era New Orleans, Louisiana in the Irish Channel neighborhood. They did not know...

Joseph DeMott eventually lost track of the friends he made in the prison camps on Java. One of the men, who had part of...

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