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Photograph. Helicopter flying with three escort airplanes above it. Personal caption on reverse: "3 Escorts / 1...

Photograph. Group of uniformed American servicemen gathered indoors around Christmas cake being cut with samurai sword...

The bombing of Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941] was a...

Richard "Dick" Schneider was born in Akron, Ohio in March 1923. His family included his parents, one sister, and one...

Ray Gene Gresham was born in July 1927 in Lawrence County, Illinois, the last of the six children of a farmer. After...

Chester J. Butcher was resting and listening to the radio [Annotator's Note: at the United States Military Academy in...

A few days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Joseph DeMott saw the devastation. With five battleships sunk or...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was in aviation cadet training when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...

Maxwell Nelson was born in October 1921 in Covington County, Alabama and grew up in the town of Andalusia. The youngest...

Raymond Urban was born in September 1920 in Bogalusa, Louisiana. They left there when he was young and moved around...

John “Johnny” Pesky found himself lost while flying during flight training. Landing in a farmer’s field, he admitted...

Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...

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