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Reading, writing, and arithmetic were important to black people when Samson Alexander was growing up. They knew they...
Norman Weber and his cousin heard a different sound to the sirens [Annotator’s Note: air raid sirens sounded near a...
Edward Field was a navigator and an officer but also enjoyed associating with enlisted men. He discovered that one of...
[Annotator's Note: There is a break in the video then the video starts while Alfred Pierse Murphy is mid-sentence.] He...
Marine Corps boot camp was hard, hard, and harder for Marion Meredith Beal. They would have unannounced D.I. [Annotator...
When Calvin Moore arrived at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North...
Moise S. Steeg, Jr. went to Officer Candidate School in Miami, Florida. He finished in the upper one percent of the...
Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States after the war. He was on the aircraft carrier Hollandia [Annotator’s...
Seymour Mermelstein was in Kassel, Germany on 12 April 1945 when President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...
They [Annotator's Note: Leon Bass and the 183rd Engineer Combat Battalion (Colored)] stopped near Weimar [Annotator's...
Howard Chandler was marched out of Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp...
Thomas Kiyoshi Tsubota [Annotator's Note: with Merrill's Marauders, the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)] walked...
Elmo Espree's troop ship sailed from Australia for the Bay of Bengal in India. In India, Espree went through the Ganges...
The Japanese were friendly towards children, so Angus Lorenzen did not fear them. He talked with them until about four...
After two years in England and periodically being required to report to the police as a refugee, Howard Chandler heard...
Dominick Sgobbo remembered taking prisoners back to headquarters and having to prevent non-combatants from mistreating...
Ryfka Finkelstein and her brother were fleeing [Annotator's Note: their village was being surrounded by Gestapo and...
Ralph “Bud” Ginrich [Annotator’s Note: as a private first class in the 81st Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 1st...
For Holly Reynolds, the experience of being overseas was so unusual that she appreciated it as a whole. She is also...
[Annotator's Note: There is a person in the background moving about the room throughout this clip.] Bette C. Horstman...
Bluma Polonski was born in March 1930 and raised in Wolanow, Poland [Annotator's Note: also spelled Volanov, Poland]....
John Langston Harrison, Jr. was born in December 1920 in Topeka, Kansas. He was raised in Osage City, Kansas and Omaha...
Thomas J. Bostick was born in October 1923 in Laurinburg, North Carolina. His parents, both sharecroppers, traveled...
Growing up, Samson Alexander used to follow around his brother who was in Boy Scouts. The white people had what they...
Matthew Cornelia was born in July 1918 and raised in Rochester, New York. His parents were both born in Ireland. At a...
Jack Beverstein and one other FBI [Annotator's Note: Federal Bureau of Investigation] agent covered the Georgia Ku Klux...
Samson Alexander says the people in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] were not for the marching [...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] After returning home from World War 2,...
William H Greason believed that African-American servicemen helped the Civil Rights Movement. In 1963, Greason was a...
Samson Alexander did a lot of things in the Civil Rights Movement. He did not know people had become hardened and mean...
Oscar Culp performed much civic work for the city of Oceanside [Annotator's Note: Oceanside, California]. [Annotator's...
Henry Feldman had no major problems returning home after the war. He soon decided to return to school since he left...
[Annotator's Note: Helene Bouton still dreams of her Holocaust experiences every night.] She dreams now that it is her...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Betty Soskin how the values of World War 2 shaped her personal values and her...
Rothacker Smith attended North High School in Detroit, Michigan after his family moved back to the city from the...

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