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When Glynn G. Raby Jr. first considered enlisting, he wanted to join the Air Corps. He was young, and aviation was...

Curtis Brooks does not really think about the atomic bombs being dropped on Japan. That it hastened the end of the war...

George Joseph Bertucci was born in July 1925 in New Orleans and was raised there. His mother passed when he was three...

His service as a Nisei [Annotator's Note: first generation Japanese-American] soldier was important to Walter Oka...

At Pearl Harbor, Russell Clay's battle station was on the 1.1 inch pom-pom guns. [Annotator's Note: Clay was a crewman...

Alonzo Emerson was born in April 1923 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The oldest of three children [Annotator's Note: one...

George Haines was top in points and could go home or stay near the war's end. He went to Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan for...

Robert Dickinson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1924, the second of two children. At an early age his...

Bernard Norman Marcantel was born in July 1923 in Oberlin, Louisiana, the youngest of four sons. The children of their...

Joseph Rockforte was born in 1922 in what is now Plaquemine, Louisiana. After he was born his father moved the family...

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

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

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