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Leo Denault finished school in June and went into the service on 16 August 1943. He went to basic training in Gulfport...

When Lincoln Piazzo deployed for overseas service, he was flown from San Francisco, California to New Guinea without...

Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...

Keith Kiefer feels the advent of nuclear weapons is a double-edged sword. Had they not been invented, there is very...

Lionel Lopez was born in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] in August 1921. He is 84 years old. He...

In the first days of June [Annotator's Note: June 1942], Donald Hoff and his fellow airmen were getting nervous,...

Ellis Whaley's training had been in engineering. He was given a transit and laid out roads and a cemetery. He had some...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw a man who was captured after he got out of his airplane waving at the Americans [Annotator's...

Starnes wanted the USS Missouri to live out the rest of her days as a museum ship in San Francisco so that more school...

Robert J. Ferris was born in January 1922 in Pittsford, New York. He had one older brother. His father worked as a...

Calvin Moore left boot camp in September 1943. He attended his sister's funeral and returned in time to be shipped out...

Adolfo V. Celaya was born in Florence, Arizona in May 1927. He had one brother and two sisters. Celaya was the oldest...

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