European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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James Crane got into the Merchant Marine because Roosevelt [Annotator’s Note: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and...
James Livaudais saw a man named Oseroff killed. That was the first combat death that Livaudais witnessed. He merely...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Matthew A. Reluga if he and his outfit, Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion,...
James Harvard London shipped out of Southampton [Annotator's Note: Southampton, England] on the Belgian ship...
John Paul flew 34 missions as a bomber pilot [Annotator's Note: with the 327th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd Bombardment...
By the time James Flannigan got home in June 1945, his gear had already been shipped to Fort Lewis, Washington. He was...
Samuel Lombardo received the Silver Star for advancing on a hill under enemy fire. His men hit the ground when the...
Lowell Brueland earned the Silver Star after he arrived in France while performing a fighter sweep. He had completed...
George Roberts knew people who would give their lives for him in the military. He has spoken to people at Keelser Air...
Josephine Pescatore’s unit would leap frog with 44th Evac Hospital. One group would work while the other rested. They...
After fighting at the Saar River [Annotator's Note: Saar River, Germany], Benjamin Wolf Cohen and his division [...
Samuel W. Smith was awakened to fly a mission. He had to get up and get his crew ready. They had their breakfast and...
Because of the frost bite problem with his feet, Vernon Leopold was given limited service for six months after his...
Guy Stern went to Camp Barkley, Texas for basic training. This was the training ground for medical administration. High...
James Craig was a corporal and knew shorthand. A commanding officer wanted him to be his secretary. Craig did not want...
[Annotator's Note: There is another person in the room off screen that interjects to help interviewee with the...
After graduating high school in 1939, Gerald “Gerry” Gustafson attended Wentworth Military Academy [Annotator’s Note:...
Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] arrived at the beaches far enough away to see what was...
Peter Hirschmann was sent to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey]...
[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] William Isham Davis [Annotator’s Note: serving...
Thomas Creekmore did what they told him [Annotator's Note: when Creekmore was drafted January 1943]. He told his wife...
Mort Walker was just getting going in college when he got his draft notice. Walker thought the Army was a great...
Dr. Stanley Jaffe's basic training at Camp Barkeley, Texas [Annotator's Note: in Abilene, Texas] was straightforward....
Adolph Edward Asher's [Annotator's Note: with the 45th Infantry Division] ship was sunk by a U-boat [Annotator's Note:...
Kaare Allan Johnson was drafted in the Army in March 1943. He was sent to Camp Upton, Long Island [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: Carmen Scoppa is in a hospital and voices can be heard in the background throughout the interview...
Thomas Ballew briefly considered joining the Marine Corps but decided that he would wait to be called up. He was...
Fred Hirsekorn was drafted in early 1943. After induction at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas he was sent to Camp Campbell,...
During basic training in Miami Beach [Annotator's Note: Miami Beach, Florida], Raymond Mabarac lived in a hotel for a...
Lionel Baxter was trained to handle ammunition [Annotator's Note: as part of a gun crew in Battery A, 941st Field...
J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. attended officer training school at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia]. The...
On 7 December 1941, Robert Haffner and a friend of his borrowed their fathers' cars and rode around Detroit celebrating...
Donald G. Watson was sent to Camp Carson, Colorado during the winter and was assigned to the 71st Infantry Division....
Susumas Ito was sent to Camp Shelby [Annotator's Notes: Hattiesburg, Mississippi] as a motor sergeant for a cadre in...
In 1944,Vernon Schmidt began his military training with a cannon company on the 105mm howitzer [Annotator's Note: M2A1...

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