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Hopkins was the 33rd plane to take off. It was the 1st time that Hopkins took off carrying a live bomb. After he took...

The war did not have much of an effect on Walter Jacobs. He has never had a problem talking about it like a lot of guys...

Being a farm boy and being used to hard work, as well as having a disciplinarian uncle who had been in the service,...

Vernon Henry Moret recalled a banzai attack on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipain, Northern Mariana Islands]. The...

Don Daniels became friends with men he served with. He only stayed in touch with three or four by exchanging Christmas...

Homer Myers flew the T-17 Stearman [Annotator's Note: Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet primary trainer aircraft] in...

[Annotator's Note: James Gulotta served in the Army as an intelligence and reconnaissance team leader in the 21st...

Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

Giles Bacon remembers that the Japanese aircraft were close enough to shoot at, which he did. He had no idea if he hit...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...

Albert Simon was born in February 1920. His parents worked on a farm. He was raised on the farm and worked there until...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

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