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James N. Rizzo's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note...

Byron Herbert Meader received very little military training when he was assigned to the 3462nd Ordnance Medium...

Crump and the Chief Engineer had done some work when the seas were calm. The Chief Engineer felt that there was a...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was a tail gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber in the 53rd...

Allen Horton had a long leave on Ulithi, where the mail that had been collecting for some time finally reached the...

While living in Japan during World War 2, Nobuo Hayashi describes that the bombings would happen during the day, while...

Francis Bucher was training pilots for night flying [Annotator's Note: at Naval Air Station Ellyson Field, Pensacola,...

Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes was named after his uncle on his father's side. As a kid, he wanted a simple name like...

John Kreutzberg was born in July 1927 and grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He lived with his parents and aunt. He...

Richard Lafleur was born in December 1926 in Bemidji, Minnesota. He was there until he was about 15, when his parents...

Harold Ward found out that the man on the other side of the headphones died about six years ago. Ward wore the...

Pearl Harbor was "a mess," and John Cassidy said he learned that one of his classmates from officers' candidate school...

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