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Lorenzo Dow Crews fought in World War 2 because "it was the thing to do." He was ready to go after the Japanese...
Christopher Blake [Annotator's Note: a novelist and playwright who served with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group in Europe]...
Jerry LaMura remembers hitting the beaches in Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...
Fred Whitaker learned to make lists of things to do from the Army. The Army had an intensity he had never experienced...
John Robert Mannarino [Annotator's Note: after serving as a translator for the US Army in North Africa and Italy] left...
George A. Damiano fought in World War 2 because he felt like he should help his country. He felt he did not learn much...
Ralph Sykes does not remember how he heard about Goering [Annotator's Note: German Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering]...
[Annotator's Note: The video and sound are out of sync in this clip.] J.D. Graddy's most memorable experience of World...
Earl Flanagan's most memorable experience of World War 2 was witnessing the boxcar full holocaust survivors and bodies...
Peter "Pete" Behr's most memorable experience of World War 2 was the landing at Leyte [Annotator's Note: Battle of...
Edward C. Cole's most memorable experience of World War 2 was arriving [Annotator's Note: in Leghorn, or Livorno, Italy...
Charles White was in Nuremberg, Germany when he heard the war was over. He went from France to Germany in a tank. They...
James Nannini fought in World War 2 because he was drafted, but he would have gone in anyway because many of his...
[Annotator's Note: The audio level of this interview is very low.] John Ryan knows that over time, things changed for...
Charles Fitts, Jr. does not know what he would have been if not for the war. Before the war, Fitts wanted to be a left...
Morton Brooks had veteran buddies that shared experiences, although not many had anything similar to what he endured....
Terry Shima believes it is important to learn about World War 2. Shima's organization, JAVA [Annotator's Note: Japanese...
Edward Tipper remembered the attack on Carentan and his subsequent wounding as an ordinary series of events. The most...
Gerard V. Radice thinks that it is important to have institutions like The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in...
Maurice Zolkower thought it was an adventure to approach Dachau [Annotator's Note: as a medic in the 45th Infantry...
Irving Becker remembers a funny incident as his most memorable event of the war. It involved some comrades and women at...
Paul Fair thinks it is important to teach people about World War Two. Millions of people were killed in the war. It is...
Wallace Hurley missed his bed most of all while he was in combat. The rain was heavy in France. Foxholes filled up so...
Earl Ervin Clark believes that World War 2 changed him dramatically. He went from being a poor kid washing dishes to...
For Francis Hurd, the most difficult part of the war was crossing the beachhead onto French soil because they didn't...
Walter J. Latiolais, Sr has seen the interest in World War 2 become stronger in the last few years. To him, his career...
Ed Rendelman grew up fast as a result of his participation in World War II. He discovered a lot of things he never...
David Olson had his most interesting and sad moment in the Army when his outfit broke up after the war. As the battery...
Paul Baughman's most important consideration about the war is he will not see combat anymore. He suffered with hip, leg...
At the end of the war, Chris Carawan said there were thousands of German prisoners that had been taken. The Americans...
Robert Whelan's most memorable experience of the war came in Siegburg [Annotator's Note: Siegburg , Germany] on 30...
Mort Walker's most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting out alive. He served during the war because he was...
Allen Porter's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he almost was killed by a landmine [Annotator's Note:...
George Reitmeier’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was crossing the Channel [Annotator’s Note: English Channel...
Julia L. Myers remembers the winter of 1944 in Belgium. It was cold and miserable. It was snowy and the bombing of...
Togue Uchida [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team] had a mission to rescue a...

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