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Edward O. Wood, Senior was assigned to the Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii]...
Richard F. Penwell departed California and arrived in Dobodura, New Guinea but soon departed for Leyte [Annotator's...
[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] During his service in the...
The war did not change John Bache-Wiig, Jr. He expected what happened and he applied his Eagle Scout Annotator's Note:...
Mason Dorsey's most memorable experience of World War 2 is the day he got knocked out by a German Panzerfaust [...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis sees people as weaker today than they used to be. People should learn about the war. All...
Gilbert Clift survived the war by being lucky. He did not have any kind of religious experience. He has done a pretty...
Eugene J. Gemperline's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being operated on and the dizzy aftermath of post-...
Albert Simon fought for his country. He was drafted. He fought for the United States flag. He changed from a civilian...
Bluma Polonski began talking about her experiences with schoolchildren in Omaha, Nebraska [Annotator's Note: where she...
Steve Sivak's most memorable experience during the war was during the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of...
Milton L. McMullen, Sr. thinks the aftereffects of the bombings around Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] was the...
[Annotator's Note: The sound quality is diminished throughout this segment.] George Henry Rosenberg was changed by...
Delbert Wombacher was in Reims [Annotator's Note: Reims, France]. A call came out from headquarters, who knew they had...
Donald Evans landed in England and went to the 187th General Hospital for more surgeries and then to another hospital...
Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...
[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, New Guinea. He was rescued and...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Swanson was assigned to the USCGC Comanche (WPG-76) on escort duty for the troop transport...
James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...
Lloyd Dendy went to the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. Pavuvu and Mbanika were coconut...
Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group...
Sam Goldstein [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division]...
Joseph Haines was glad to get back home. Nobody was happier to see him than his mother. He arrived back in the United...
[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout the interview as he had a stroke and has trouble...
Milton L. McMullen, Sr. was able to start his journey back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being a...
Jack Dunlavy came back for Navy Day [Annotator's Note: 27 October 1945]. He thought he wanted to stay in the Navy but...
Irving Baum slept, had breakfast and went back in [Annotator's Note: to the Dachau concentration camp complex near...
When Phineas Stevens left Leyte Gulf [Annotator's Note: Battle of Leyte, Philippines, 17 October to 26 December 1944]...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Larson to talk about the process of returning to the United States.] A...
In November 1945, Anna McCalla Noren boarded a transport plane and flew from Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern...
Herbert Yudenfriend left [Annotator's Note: from Manila, Luzon, Philippines on 23 September 1946] on the tail end of...
John Paul returned home on a 14 day boat trip to Southampton [Annotator's Note: Southampton, New York]. His original...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] In March 1949, Albert "Al" Machaud received...
Don Tallon [Annotator's Note: a liberated former prisoner of war in Magdeburg, Germany] saw of couple of his former...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Prince helped liberate the Cabanatuan Prison Camp, Cabanatuan City, Luzon, Philippines on 30...

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