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Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan and Guilin, China as part of the 21st...

Robert Liles was born in 1920 in Webb City, Missouri and grew up in Jefferson City. When the depression began, his...

The war in Europe had ended, but the war in the Pacific continued. The Allies were supporting Chiang Kai-Shek [...

Charles Poston had 13 hours and ten minutes of flying time when there was a call for volunteers to go to test pilot...

Roy H. Matsumoto was almost killed at the Myitkyina [Annotator's Note: Myitkyina, Burma; now Myitkyina, Myanmar]...

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

Lawrence Eustis was on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] when he heard about VE-Day [...

When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Berle Wheeler was sent to Camp Robinson, Arkansas for 13 weeks of boot camp. He was then sent to Camp Gordon in Augusta...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a flying instructor with the US Army Air Forces] was sent to school to...

Lester Shapiro's experience before getting to Burma [Annotator's Note: present day Myanmar], was guarding some oil...

Towards the end of the war, they [Annotator's Note: the British officers] were telling them [Annotator's Note: Masaji...

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