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Ricardo R. Rondinelli was sent to Makin Island in the Gilbert Islands and assigned to the 47th Bombardment Squadron,...
Dale Bates flew seven missions as an instructor before the squad was disbanded in October 1944. Bates was then...
Frank A. Wiswall graduated from aviation school and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in January 1943. He...
[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Upon arriving in England in...
John Arthur Stege flew across the Atlantic to England then on to Gibraltar and to North Africa [Annotator's Note: as a...
John Arthur Stege and 14 other pilots were sent home [Annotator's Note: he was a veteran combat pilot with the 48th...
After pilot training, Homer Myers got his commission. He went to Tampa, Florida and started his B-17 [Annotator's Note...
On 12 October [Annotator's Note: 12 October 1944], Benjamin Clark Amsden [Annotator's Note: a pilot with Fighting...
[Annotator's Note: Audio is not good throughout this clip.] When he was not on a mission, Marvin Raymond Graham would...
[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp and his crew [Annotator's Note...
Flying the B-47 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-47 Sratojet subsonic strategic bomber] was great, according to Joseph...
Joel Urice flew his seventh mission in Germany below Berlin [Annotator’s Note: Berlin, Germany]. They experienced a lot...
Rita Brandes has vivid memories of the bombing raids. Bremen [Annotator's Note: Bremen, Germany] was one of the three...
On 5 January 1945, Carl Beck and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry...
Frank Finklang recalls a mission where a plane in front of him was hit and the pilot bailed out but did not have time...
Robert Fisch met with outstanding doctors but did not stay at the hospital they recommended. Instead, he became a...
Recalling some of the highlights of his experiences, Harold Shook said it didn't look like the Luftwaffe [Annotator's...
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] and the...
During the war, rationing was a way of life in England, according to Constance Cresswell. Each person was allotted two...
Depth charges were generally under the wings of the aircraft, according to Bennett Sparks. The pilot, given location...
Carrol Smith landed during the invasion of Angaur Island in the Palau island group [Annotator’s Note: the invasion...
Lloyd Duncan had a few exciting experiences. After a flight out over the Atlantic the pilot lost manifold pressure and...
John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew would be briefed the day before and the morning of a mission. They would go over...
Ittsei Nakagawa's father's side of the family came over to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Japan] around 1904...
John Morrow was born in April 1924 in Marksville, Louisiana. It is a small town and he knew almost everyone in town. He...
Charles Nathan Lane was part of the 197th Coast Artillery Regiment (Antiaircraft) (Semimobile) until the Japanese were...
Allen Pedersen and his company [Annotator's Note: 476th Ordnance Evacuation Company] were recovering American tanks and...
Bernard Baker went to Anzio [Annotator's Note: Anzio, Italy] and remained there for about three weeks. It was a...
After getting the alert prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor that Hawaii may be invaded by sea, Clarence Herbert...
Stanley Jack Birnbaum fought the war that was considered a "popular war" because it was necessary. He was a tall,...
Once his ship [Annotator's Note: the SS Sara Teasdale] reached Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana...
Wallace Yip, Sr. went to England and the Germans were sending the V-bombs [Annotator's Note: V1 Buzz Bomb, V-1 pulse...
After graduating from advanced training, Second Lieutenant Eugene Vaadi was assigned to the 385th Bombardment Group...
Donald Marsaglia’s crew landed in Biak [Annotator’s Note: Biak, Indonesia] right after a Japanese air raid. They left...
Curtis Brooks knew the Americans were approaching the Philippines. In 1944, the Japanese military posture in the...

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