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Before the 5th Marine Division landed on Iwo Jima, Norman Hatch assigned all of the men in his camera outfit to various...
In 1940, when Donald Strait joined the Observation Squadron [Annotator's Note: 119th Observation Squadron], it was his...
Lloyd Reese trained to be a bombardier on the AT-11 [Annotator’s Note: Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan] and then the B-24 [...
In Vietnam, Van Barfoot found the news different from the perspective he got from it in the United States. He saw and...
When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...
Richard Gibian thought the ground fire was dangerous. When flying to and from a target, pilots flew in an "S" motion to...
[Annotator's Note: David Oreck served in the US Army Air Forces as a navigator on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...
James Russo considers himself fortunate in his life. After the war, he went to work for the Food and Drug Unit in the...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Betty Soskin how she feels about accepting the Silver Service Medallion at The...
John W. Towle was shot down on 28 February 1944 over Normandy. The news of the war was scarce in occupied France so...
[Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral James D. "Jig Dog" Ramage, commanded Bombing Squadron 10 (VB-10), a scout-...
Freeman Dyson attended school with Frank Thompson and admired him greatly. He was an older boy with a grand sense of...
When he had free time, Floyd James Reissig would chip paint and paint the ship. When he was on an island, the crew...
The woman spoke English. James Siracuse asked if he could join her. They chatted for awhile. She was a medical student...
Arriving at Naples, John Laster said, the Army would assume defense of the incoming ships. On the mountains behind...
Paul Arst adjusted well to civilian life. He met his wife in 1958 while he was attending a meeting in Alabama. A friend...
After the war, Harry Bell kept up with several guys he served with but those contacts slowly faded away except for his...
Since they had bonded together in a single place at a single airfield in Germany, Robert Payne and friends continued...
Carl Peterson doesn't know how the war changed him. He has his own views on how things should be. His wife gets on him...
Dominic Della Vedova completed landings in North Africa [Annotator's Note: the Allied invasion of North Africa,...
Clarence Herbert Weatherwax served in the 298th Infantry Regiment which was a National Guard unit in federal service....
Thomas Murphy talks to high schools about the war. When a young girl asked him which of his medals he was the most...
When they [Annotator's Note: Anthony Acevedo and the other former POWs from the Berga concentration camp] left Paris,...
Milton Fernandez was sailed to the Galapagos Islands, near Ecuador. The company was stationed in boxes around the...
Manfred Steinfeld was a German Jew [Annotator's Note: who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938], but...
Alan Moskin says that Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr.] used to love to march...
The missions George McGovern flew usually required between 4,000 and 6,000 pounds of bombs, with ten of those bombs...
After France, Bernard Baker entered Germany. He went through Heidelberg and Darmstadt, Germany. In Darmstadt, Baker...
Once in Germany, Dominic Fiore [Annotator's Note: with the 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division] once hit a P-...
Anderson Wilson and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 23rd Headquarters Special Troops] went into Germany. Frankfurt was...
On the 13 February 1945, Harold Baumgarten took his discharge papers to the Bronx County Courthouse. By 14 February, he...
When Cosmo Uttero got home, he joined the VFW [Annotator's Note: Veterans of Foreign Wars]. There were hundreds of...
Nathan Taffel lived in a ghetto when he was very young. The Orthodox Jews lived close to the temple so it was easy to...
James Livaudais was part of the division which was to become the Sergeant York Division—the 82nd Division with about 16...
Archie Kelley stayed in the Navy until 1978. There were four officers on Rickover's [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral...
Russell Clark sailed toward Normandy with his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Charles Carroll (APA-28)] lingering offshore...

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