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[Annotator's Note: Richard Baile served in the USAAF and as a flight engineer on B-29 bombers.] Finally, they got their...

Nick Cristiano says his crew were nice boys. He was anxious to go on his first mission [Annotator's Note: January 1945...

James Oney was in Portland, Oregon after leaving his family farm in the middle of the summer [Annotator's Note: Summer...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...

Thomas Francis Schicker was sent to Mainside Area 13 [Annotator's Note: location on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in...

In 1944, Kenneth A. Lafleur and the 22nd Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force were sent to an airfield in Finschhafen, New...

John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: part of an intelligence and reconnaissance team known as the Alamo Scouts, the US 6th...

The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...

Wallace Spencer and two others stole a whaleboat after the war. A wooden one. They were in Bremerton, Washington where...

Returning home and being discharged from the Marine Corps was bittersweet for Edgar Cole. At the time prejudice was...

When Gravois landed on Saipan they were being shelled. Gravois lost 2 men when they landed. They were put into the line...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

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