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[Annotator's Note: Paul Dietzel served in the USAAF as a copilot on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in the...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

Nick Cristiano saw his first B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] in New Mexico and it...

John Nicholas was a Seaman 2nd Class deck hand when he went aboard the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)]....

Jake Ussery and the Langley [Annotator's Note: USS Langley (CVL-27)] were ordered back to San Diego. That was his base...

Marvin Martin [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 3475th Ordnance Medium Automotive Maintenance Company] was sent to a...

The last mission for Mason Brownell Fitch really sticks out in his mind. Reaching into his little blue book [Annotator'...

Saipan was a bigger island then Tinian so it required a different kind of fight. After Tinian, Michael Mervosh felt...

The next morning Alexander Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the US Marine Corps] served in World War 2. He was on active duty in...

Adolfo V. Celaya reached Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]. The ship bombarded the...

Archibald Higgins flew the four-engine B-24J [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24J Liberator heavy bomber]. It was a...

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