Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO)

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Early life for Charles Radford was tough because of the Great Depression. He grew up in a family of eight including his...
Raymond Wells was born in Eagle, Colorado in April 1922. He was living in Secora, New Mexico and remembers the day the...
Robert Tyler Oakes was born in March 1922 in New Albany, Indiana. He enjoyed his youth participated in plays in high...
Ivan Van der Pool was born and raised in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. He had a normal childhood...
Avon is 60 miles south of Mitchell, South Dakota. George McGovern spent the first three years of his life in Avon. He...
Dominic Martello served with the Service Company [Annotator's Note: early Cannon Company, before they established them...
Thomas Michael Holt was born in July 1919 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. His father was head of a military school. Most...
Harry Baughman was born in Findlay, Ohio. He grew up there during the Great Depression, when "things were tough." When...
Joseph Hochadel served in the 34th Infantry Division, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion as a combat medic. He was...
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with the interviewer attempting to level out the audio.] Alexander Jefferson was...
Armiger Jagoe was born in April 1921 in Okolona, Mississippi and moved to Gulfport, Mississippi when he was two years...
Edwin Sved was born in February 1924 in New York, New York and grew up through difficult times in a caring family. He...
James Nerison was born in San Francisco. His mother and father moved down to the city of Alhambra near Los Angeles. His...
[Annotator's Note: Norman Kinsey worked with military intelligence units in World War 2.] There was a lot of protocol....
Albert Porche went into the service after Pearl Harbor was attacked. The armed forces were trying to recruit as many...
The 88th Infantry Division made it into the port at Naples, and Harry Boughman moved through and crossed the Volturno...
For Frank Mancuso, the war took away four years of his youth and there were many things he did not get a chance to do....
During the war, T. Moffatt Burriss encountered an individual nicknamed Eight Ball. Burriss first encountered him in...
Harley Reynolds’s company came across some German collaborators who had killed themselves once they realized the...
Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] were...
In April 1945, President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States]...
Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...
William Leo Spaetgens was pulled out of the Navy Armed Guard in January 1945. Many men were removed from that service...
Enemy fighters would come from all directions at the bombers. William Fili says they would dive fast and then turn away...
The Germans were formidable because of their early conquests like the blitzkrieg [Annotator's Note: method of warfare...
John Lawler was born in September 1921 in Baltimore [Annotator's Note: Baltimore, Maryland] with three brothers and...
Gowan Duffy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in December 1920. He would bounce from one job to another because they...
Thomas D. Thompson enlisted [Annotator's Note: in the Navy in early 1943] because he has a fierce love of his country....
William Fili enlisted a few days after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...
Gowan Duffy remembers that in between battles, his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 141st Field Artillery Battalion] would...
Howard T. Maki spent time in the replacement depot [Annotator's Note: in Caserta, Italy in April 1944] until he was...
Clinton E. Riddle was born in Loudon County, Tennessee in February 1921. He was the only child in his family and grew...
In October 1944, John Baldori was sent overseas and served in the Mediterranean [Annotator’s Note: under US Army...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks the interviewee what the military nurses did for socializing during their war...
Claude L. Lewis was born in 1922. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global economic depression that...
Merrill J. Clark grew up in Chicago, Illinois. His father was employed during the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...

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