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William Siebert Greer was born in 1921 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. His father provided for his family by farming. It...

The last time Richard Cole saw the old man [Annotator's Note: USAF General James H. Doolittle] was in 1992. Several of...

James Smith went home on 2 September 1945. He had a good job in New Zealand where he stayed for the rest of the war [...

James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...

It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...

Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

Alex Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M...

It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...

Baldwin was born on 7 February 1922 in Jasper, Alabama. His family moved to Birmingham in 1928 when he was 6 years old...

Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...

Tom Quigley recounts how he was in church when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place and did not even know about the...

Paul Hilliard believes the SBD Dauntless is much underrated and unfortunately much unrecognized. WWII books sometimes...

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