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

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

Russell Engel was born in Vesta, Minnesota, the son of a farmer who left the farm to work in oil refineries in Caspar,...

James W. Metcalf was born in Toledo, Ohio in September 1924. When he was still an infant, Metcalf’s father moved the...

Jack A. Gillis was born in February 1923 in Mound City, Missouri. He had no brothers or sisters. At age two, Gillis...

Norman Johnson was born on Staten Island, New York on 16 January 1925. His father was an electrician. In the afternoons...

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

John Treen met a friend at College Inn [Annotator's Note: Ye Olde College Inn Restaurant, New Orleans, Louisiana] one...

Lincoln Piazzo was born in December 1918 in Reno, Nevada. His father was an immigrant, working in the transportation of...

Robert Offenbacher was born in Lima, Ohio in September 1922. He had five brothers. He was a twin and one brother was...

Robert Riddle was born in Gainesville, Texas in May 1924. When he was three years old his father bought a farm and...

Carl Platkin was in military school on Pearl Harbor day [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

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