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Harvey Mittleman's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the heavy combat during the first few days on Okinawa [...

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

Paul Dietzel continued flying in civilian life after the war. When he would fly with the team, the pilots would...

Bombing 6 and Scouting 8 had different ready rooms and different skippers, but the guys interacted with each other....

Lionel Lopez was a shoe salesman before the war. He went back to work for the same company after he got out of the...

Initially, Alfred Taddeo lost contact with his fellow flyers after their short stint together on the team [Annotator's...

Wicker was told to go relieve the man on the gate but he refused because he knew he had more points than any man over...

After the Japanese invaded the Philippines, Paul Kerchum and his company were ordered to report to Bataan [Annotator’s...

Frederick Ellis had seven 40mm guns [Annotator's Note; Bofors 40mm automatic cannon] and 12 20mm guns [Annotator's Note...

Burton "Burt" Johnson had five brothers in the war as well as him. Three were in the Air Corps, two in the Navy, and he...

Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] got evacuated after...

Joe Morris and his unit [Annotator's Note: 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were part of the...

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