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During the war years, James Lee went to USO [Annotator's Note: United Services Organization] shows and saw guys like...
Harry Lockhead was aboard USS Giansar (AKA-111) when it arrived at Pearl Harbor and picked up supplies bound for...
The guys at Midway knew that the Navy was out there but not where they were. Sumner Whitten was at Midway when an SBD [...
Paul Sparacino was in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5)] when Vietnam [Annotator's...
[Annotator's Note: Darrell D. Gust served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...
Paul Sparacino [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS Princeton (LPH-5) during Operation Dominic, series of...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein only remembers...
Paul Franklin went to work for an oil company after he graduated high school. While at the water house, Franklin...
Alexander Jefferson listened to the BBC [Annotator's Note: British Broadcasting Corporation] radio at the POW [...
Benjamin Wolf Cohen and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 320th Engineer Combat Battalion, 95th Infantry Division...
Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm [Annotator’s Note: a navigational equipment technician assigned to the 415th AACS (Army...
John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit, known as the Alamo Scouts] did...
Isadore Bronstein advanced but his company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 386th Infantry Regiment, 97th...
During World War 2, Walter McNeely was working as a spy in Germany, collecting information to pass on to the French...
Carlos Reed had to search all the houses and disarm all the civilians in Korea. He had to find the enemy from within....
The Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive, 16 December 1944...
Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...
Z. Anthony Kruszewski remembers the houses were collapsing. After two weeks they no longer had food for the Warsaw...
Z. Anthony Kruszewski went to the west side of the bridge and joined the uprising [Annotator’s Note: The Warsaw...
Teddy Kirkpatrick reflects on the events in his life during World War 2, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor. He...
[Annotator’s Note: various noises in the background throughout this segment.] John Bruce served in the army as a radio...
Yukio Kawamoto was able to witness the battle [Annotator's Note: the battle of Hill 700 on Bougainville]. The division...
When Herman Pbert was going back to Germany [Annotator's Note: in 1950], he said he would be so bad against them [...
After the battle ended, Ira Schilling and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment,...
Guy Stern served out of the conviction that the cancer of Nazism must be eliminated. His life was change by accident....
Robert J. Hutchings was assigned as a stenographer under the command of General Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Wiswell about a job his company did after the war in Pakistan.] When...
Philemon Andrews Saint Amant [Annotator's Note: a member of the OSS, Office of Strategic Services; pre-runner to today'...
Paul Gibfried was born in Park Ridge, Illinois in September 1924. When he joined the Navy, he was investigated by the...
Harris H. Levee reported to the University [Annotator's Note: Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago,...
After serving as MP [Annotator's Note: Military Police in the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, 116th Infantry...
Herman Yates was asked to go on reconnaissance with an officer and a driver to a little town where some Americans were...
Marigold McNeely knew that she could be drafted into the service at age 18 whether she was married or not. That was the...
In February 1946, Bernard Marcus was responsible for a part of Bavaria when the zones of occupation by the Allies were...

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