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The war made James Roland Westbrook a better person. He had not finished high school, so went home to Mississippi and...

On the way to Peleliu, Joe Clapper's transport pulled into Ulithi, where he saw a small carrier with a hole in it big...

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

Once he was back in the United States, Richard Jaccarino traveled by train, dropping off soldiers and train cars all...

Edward F. Kent married his wife in November 1942 while he was at Camp Carson [Annotator’s Note: Camp Carson, Colorado...

John Singlaub compared British to American parachutes. The British chute was different in many ways compared to the...

Randall Edwards was born in July 1917 near Pine Bluff, Wyoming. His family lived on ranches in various parts of the...

Charles Wesley Borders moved to Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, Western New Guinea], then Halmahera [Annotator's Note:...

Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. and his crew mates used skip bombing [Annotator's Note: a low level bombing technique that...

Robert Freligh’s crewman Sam Plonski was from the Boston area, and Peter Sanchez from the Chicago area. He always flew...

For William Winter, basic training was different [Annotator's Note: different than his previous experiences at Ole Miss...

Still just a "number," Carl Rieman wound up at the Marine Corps Air Station in Opelika, Florida, the only ensign among...

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