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

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

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

Feightner and a friend, Red Hall, attended the CPT [Annotator's Note: Civilian Pilot Training] class their school [...

Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...

James Livaudais was born in Jefferson Parish in Louisiana. He was one of eight children. There were six boys and two...

William Disanza was in the Boy Scouts as a kid but it did not prepare him for Burma. Disanza had originally joined the...

At 19 Thatcher finished high school and enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on December 3rd, 1940. Thatcher was sworn in...

Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...

[Annotators Note: Interview begins with the interviewer and George Wichterich talking about a tank that was knocked out...

Giles Bacon thinks it is very important that The National World War II Museum exists. History is not being taught well...

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