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In the months leading up to the United States' entry into the war, the country was isolationist. Fredrick Hollis was...

Catherine Long was born in 1924 in Dayton, Ohio. That was the home of her mother’s family. She soon moved to Pittsburgh...

Looking back, 65 years after the event, James Muri believes that the Battle of Midway had to be a turning point in the...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Bailey served in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic aboard the USS Franklin (CV-13). He...

George Rudloff felt like the Japanese had to be killed. The atrocities committed by the Japanese military were very bad...

William Winter would go out with the patrols to round up Japanese soldiers. They had an airplane and would go pick...

Vernon Leopold saw the evidence of German activity in his sector when he went on patrol. Seeing boot prints or other...

Floyd Horne says the B-26 [Annotator's Note: Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber] was a very tough airplane. He recalls...

They [Annotator’s Note: Jacklyn Lucas and his fellow Marines of Company C, 1st Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...

Alexander Jefferson's plane name was "Bubble Blue Subsoil." [Annotator's Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...

After training at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: near Hattiesburg, Mississippi], Roy H. Matsumoto heard rumors of a...

[Annotator's Note: James Siracuse served in the USAAF as a pilot flying Douglas A-20 Havoc light bombers in the 669th...

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