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Photograph. Corporal Hiram Boone in HBTs with one foot on the front bumper of a military ambulance. Burma [modern-day...

Samuel Spector thought the Kachin people were diverse. They were from various areas. Some were very smart and others...

William Disanza had a navy crew aboard his Merchant Marine ship. Their job was to handle the guns. They had a submarine...

Gus Gikas and two other men swam about a mile from the sinking HMT Rhona to the Pioneer [Annotator's Note: USS Pioneer...

What Joseph McGuire took to India was all he had for the duration of his duty. Many of the crews had no cold weather...

Herbert Clyde Saylor [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner with the 436th Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, 10th...

John Symons was born in Calumet, Michigan in July 1915. He graduated from Calumet High School. He moved to Detroit [...

Cleveland Peterson landed in Karachi, India. There was a British airbase with a huge dirigible hanger. The P-40s [...

McNeil reported to Fort Belvoir [Annotator's Note: Fort Belvoir, Virginia] but that was too close to Washington D.C....

In this clip, Richard Notebaert talks about the missions he flew over the bigger cities in Italy, attacking an airfield...

Perry L. Garten was born in November 1917 in Peculiar, Missouri. He grew up in Missouri and graduated from high school...

Marshall Burnett does not remember much excitement on the occasion of VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day...

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