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In January 1944, Yellin was sent to Thunderbird Field in Arizona. That was where he took his primary training. He was...

Randolph Daniel was born in Marshall County, Alabama in September 1926. He saw hard times in the Depression [Annotator'...

Thomas A. Tizzard Jr. was born in July 1924 in Echo, Louisiana. His family owned a farm and in 1938 they moved to New...

Gordon Tadewaldt's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the USS PGM-1 was caught in a typhoon on their way...

Arthur Jackson had been influenced by Marine pilots and wanted to fly. At the recruiting office he took the aviation...

Sharks began circling the group of survivors, and Cleatus Lebow said the predators were attacking men who broke away...

David Heath was stationed near Henderson Field [Annotator's Note: American airfield on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands...

[Annotator’s Note: various noises in the background throughout this segment.] John Bruce served in the army as a radio...

Lester Hecht went to boot camp at Parris Island in South Carolina. He got in shape. It did not bother him. He was older...

[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

When Dupuy got his wings, his sisters came down for the ceremony. After the ceremony he received a thirty day leave...

Floyd James Reissig was in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] when the war ended. When he got...

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