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William Russell

Aviation Radioman 1st Class 
Navy

William Russel was born in July of 1924. He enlisted in the Navy to help defend America against the Japanese. He remembers photographing the atom bomb detonation over Nagasaki, having a generator blow up in his face, and crash landing on a Japanese air strip.

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