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After Pearl Harbor, Herbert Gross was drafted. He had a brief basic training program. By August 1942, he had started...

Henderson's outfit was hit by enemy fighters pretty heavy on one mission. His plane was not hit. It was a long mission...

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

Basic training for Robert Lippman was in Miami Beach, Florida. He learned to salute, and dress right. He thinks he went...

William J. Pribyl was born in September 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland. He served in the Army as the Technical Executive...

On arriving in Bombay, India [Annotator's Note: now Mumbai, India], Edward Denzler's group was taken to an airport...

Cleveland Peterson was aboard the SS Johnson when he heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They had been...

Perry Garten flew a security mission with a colonel that ended up in China. It was an unexpected experience for Garten...

Within hours any ship passing the destroyer escorts loaded with prisoners would receive prisoners from those destroyer...

Robert Offenbacher thought he grew up in the Army. The major was tough and a big man. The company drunk took a jeep and...

Arnold Spielberg landed in Karachi [Annotator's Note: in July 1942, Karachi, India, now Karāchi, Pakistan]. He was...

Wesley Fronk was a courier for a Lieutenant Colonel who was a liaison to the British. He learned administrative duties...

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