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Once back in the United States, Frank Jasicko received a 14-day furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...
After the war, Anthony Costa attended Junior College and Berkley [Annotator's Note: University of California at...
Prior to his military experience, Thomas Myrick had little concern about the future. That, he feels, was partly due to...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Moran several follow-up questions]. Moran was born in September 1925 and...
John “Johnny” Pesky was in baseball his whole life. It enabled him to see a lot of things and play with some great...
Floyd Fogg is a deacon of his church, and he is thankful that God was with him on Iwo Jima, and is with him still. His...
Stephen Ananian took a train to Atlantic City, New Jersey for boot camp. He had been in ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve...
Byron Othello Wilkins, who goes by B.O. Wilkins, was named after his father. He grew up in northeast Arkansas in Luxora...
It was expected that everyone would go into the service if they were of age and they accepted that. Ed Tunnicliff did...
After his mother refused to sign for him to enter flight training, Angelo Joseph Spinato stayed in school. Around...
James Alspaugh went to basic training in Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia]. The staff had been...
Herbert W. Ridyard was called up for service on his birthday, 6 July [Annotator's Note: 6 July 1943]. He had previously...
John Symons had basic training at Jefferson Barracks [Annotator's Note: Jefferson Barracks Military Post, Lemay,...
Tokuji Yoshihashi was drafted and went to Camp Blanding, Florida for 17 weeks of basic training. He was trained on...
After basic training, Jack Vandervort got two weeks' vacation. He went to ASTP [Annotator's Note: Army Specialized...
[Annotator's Note: Robert J. "Bob" Brasel asks the interviewer if he can read from a paper he is holding.] Brasel...
Eugene Henry Gierka went to Camp Upton [Annotator's Note: in Long Island, New York; now Brookhaven National Laboratory...
Eugene Yackel had to register for the draft after he graduated from high school. He did not know what he wanted to do...
Ellis Whaley does not remember where he had basic training. He was sent to California for special training. It was a...
Irwin Medway was drafted on 18 January 1943 and was to report to basic training. After basic, he was sent to Camp Tyson...
George Mitchell feels the training at Montford Point [Annotator's Note: Camp Montford Point, Jacksonville, North...
Marion Bahlinger was born in August 1925 in Baton Rouge [Annotator's Note: Baton Rouge, Louisiana]. He grew up with...
J. W. Childs was at the Battle of Midway, but remembers nothing in particular about the event. The USS Worden (DD-352)...
Steve Sivak [Annotator's Note: a supply clerk in the 72nd Publicity Service Battalion, 3rd Army] made his way from...
Alfred Anthony Alvarez's unit [Annotator's Note: 7th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division] was given a new...
Itka Zygmuntowicz was born in April 1926 in Ciechanów, Poland. It was a small town. They lived in two different places...
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was called up in February 1943 and sent to Miami [Annotator's Note: Miami, Florida] for...
Jack Rolfson born in September 1921 in Omaha, Nebraska. He grew up in the city, went to school, and would ride his bike...
[Annotator's Note: Segment begins with Sacks and the interviewer discussing the interviewee referring to his notes...
Fiske Hanley II was selected to go to flight engineer school after basic training because of his college degree in...
Bud Olson volunteered for overseas duty in October 1943. Sent to a replacement depot in England, Olson volunteered for...
When the ASTP [Annotator's Note: Army Specialized Training Program] was disbanded in March 1944, Robert Mero was sent...
Ted Winestone [Annotator's Note: a Polish-Jewish refugee] did not talk much about his war experience with his new peers...
Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...
James L. Wheeler was born in Los Angeles, California, in February 1926. His father was a dairy man, and his mother was...
Jacklyn Lucas's uncle had been a Marine. He finished his eighth grade of school in June 1942. He overwhelmed his mother...

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