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Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...

Patrick Zilliacus was born in May 1926 in Helsinki, Finland. Life growing up was fantastic. His parents divorced when...

Louis Burg initially wanted to fly planes in the military, but his family did not want him to. His mother tore up his...

Cass Phillips got into a ferry squadron after he returned home. He flew all kinds of planes he never could before. He...

James H. "Jim" Pritchard was born in August 1925 in Ottawa, Kansas. He grew up there. He had three sisters and two...

Abraham Rosenzweig joined the US Coast Guard in October [Annotator’s Note: of 1942] and left in January 1943. His...

Choosing to go in the Navy [Annotator's Note: in 1944] was natural for Philip Curran. He grew up on the water. His...

William Hall heard a Japanese bomber fly a scouting mission over Midway Island. The squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine...

Charles Graves Chauncey did very few daylight missions and during those missions he would fly low. Most of his daylight...

Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...

Marion Labauve came out of school in seventh grade. He went to work and worked hard. His first job was working on a...

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