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Chester Brewer went to help a man build homes after the war. His former employer hired him back. He met his wife. He...
After Lieutenant John Marr narrowly escaped a German ambush during the failed night assault on the west end of the La...
Hewitt Brian Gomez was sent to Greensburg, North Carolina for seven weeks of Air Force basic training. The first...
Alton Barnes loves the United States and its freedoms. Freedom is the most important thing in this country. He decided...
Freeman Dyson saw Albert Einstein while he was at Princeton [Annotator's Note: located in Princeton, New Jersey]....
William Larson always got caught doing something en route. After he was inducted at Fort Crook [Annotator's Note: now...
Judith Baron got married and lived in New York City. Her husband did not like the city because it was too fast for him...
Judith Altmann feels that no one loves America more than the survivors [Annotator's Note: Holocaust survivors], because...
Robert Fisch met with outstanding doctors but did not stay at the hospital they recommended. Instead, he became a...
John Campbell says that America won the war and lost the peace. We were out-negotiated by Churchill [Annotator's Note:...
Nathan Taffel came to the United States and lost contact with his brother in Argentina. Taffel had a brother-in-law in...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer says she wants to ask Marthe Cohn some specific questions about the American Spirit...
Marthe Cohn and her whole group went to Quang Tri [Annotator's Note: Quang Tri Province, Vietnam; then French Indochina...
Ora Hicks has had an interesting life. If anything went wrong, she did not take it to heart. There is always another...
Lloyd Geist recalls that during the Battle of Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lô, France] he was sitting in his...
Newlyweds, Shirley Sandy Schulman, and Hyman parted ways at a train station. Schulman headed home to Brooklyn [...
James Fitzmorris did not have much college education when he enlisted. He was studying business but wanted to be a...
Theodore E. Skinner, Sr. was born in May 1921 in the Bronx, New York City [Annotator's Note: New York, New York]. After...
Simon Braitman was in the Army in Dachau, Germany. He knew he had an uncle in the same situation as him. He was going...
[Annotator's Note: There is a lot of background noise in this interview.] Edith Vancheri [Annotator's Note: an Army...
James Lee was in the Reserve [Annotator's Note: Army Reserve] program and got to serve in certain parts of the world....
Wilbur Thomas and his unit were traveling were near La Havre [Annotator's Note: Le Havre, France] with a convoy, when...
When Alfred Dearman got to Japan, he went to a replacement depot. He waited around there with his friend he had gone to...
Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...
Prior to entry into France, Henry Feldman was assigned to Cannon Company, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry...
Arnold Spielberg [Annotator's Note: as a Communications Chief in the 490th Bombardment Squadron, 341st Bombardment...
Nita Fay Overby began working for an aircraft plant [Annotator's Note: The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant...
Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in the US Marine Corps] was assigned to Washington [Annotator's Note:...
Leroy "Lee" Solice decided to reenlist because he did not have other options, and he enjoyed his time in the Army. He...
When Eugene Yackel first heard they had dropped the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...
Clarence Robert Duff recalled the USS Benham (DD-796) was on picket duty the night the first atomic bomb was dropped....
Thomas Kolesa was told to clean up his area and get everything ship shape. General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...
When President Harry S. Truman said the war was ended with the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
When President Truman [Annotator's Note: Truman, Harry S., 33rd President of the United States] dropped the atomic...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John T. "Jack" Race where he was when heard of the atomic bombs being dropped...
Having moored in the harbor at Nagasaki, Japan, Lauren Bruner and some shipmates [Annotator's Note: from the USS...

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