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Roderick, David The Famous 4th Division
David Roderick was a part of the 4th Division which was an experimental Division. They packed for the Pacific but never...
Riedl, Edward The Filipinos
Edward Riedl thought the people [Annotator's Note: he is referring to the people on Leyte, Philippines] seemed...
Billingsley, James The Filipinos
James Billingsley worked with Filipino forces. He was in the middle of it, and was pulled out. There was a Filipino...
Reynolds, Harley The first 3 days in Sicily
Harley Reynolds recognizes that the invasion [Annotators Note: the invasion of Sicily] was fairly easy in terms of...
Geiger, John The First Mission
John Geiger [Annotator’s Note: a member of the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance Unit known as the Alamo Scouts]...
Leopold, Vernon The First Reunion
Vernon Leopold provides a description of his fellow soldiers, the commander and non-commissioned officer in his I...
Rooney, Andrew The French and The Germans
Andrew A. Rooney went into Belgium [Annotator's Note: as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military...
Asher, Adolph The French Front
Adolph Edward Asher went to France to fight at Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...
Albertson, Arthur The Front Lines
Arthur Albertson was drinking and laughing with the Russians [Annotator's Note: they met the Russians when they crossed...
Burrus, William The G.I. Bill
William Burrus used the G.I. Bill to attend the University of Alabama [Annotator's Note: in Tuscaloosa, Alabama]. The G...
Leopold, Vernon The German Redoubt and Berchtesgaden
Vernon Leopold ended the war at Berchtesgaden in US Army Air Forces intelligence. He felt it was his personal victory...
Rice, Rip The German Underground
Rip Rice remembers they were trying to get the Germans to give up. They were going to take a town on the night of 18...
Colbert, Hugh The Germans Attack
On the evening of 15 December 1944, the night before the Germans opened up the massive offensive referred to as the...
Redmond, Leroy The Germans Surrender
[Annotator's Note: Leroy Redmond served in the Army as a tank crewman in Combat Command A, 14th Armored Division and...
Tweedt, Vernon T. The Great Depression
Vernon Tweedt was born in July 1921 in Estherville, Iowa. He grew up there on a farm. [Annotator's Note: The...
Evans, James The Great Depression to Army Training
James O. Evans was born in 1925 in Rustin, Louisiana. His father owned a cotton farm and from an early age Evans worked...
Angst, Lawrence The Hitler Youth and Encountering Various Camps
Lawrence Angst said that the Hitler Youth [Annotator's Note: youth organization of the Nazi Party] were radical and a...
Sherman, Joyce The Holocaust
Joyce Sherman was not aware of the Holocaust, but she knew about what was going on. She was in high school when she...
Nussenbaum, Seymour The Holocaust and War's End
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Seymour Nussenbaum heard about the Holocaust [...
Love, John The Horrors of Camp O’Donnell
After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...
Flannigan, James The Hurtgen Forest and the Distinguished Service Cross
Asked to recall his worst memories of the Hurtgen Forest, James Flannigan replied, "The day I went in, 'til the day I...
Fiore, Dominick The Invasion of Normandy
Dominic Fiore [Annotator's Note: with the 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division] arrived overseas, stationed at...
Denzler, Edward The Japanese Enemy
The impression Edward Denzler had of the Japanese soldiers he saw in Burma was that they were mostly young kids. Their...
Lafleur, Richard The Japanese People
Richard Lafleur [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty with 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division] got acquainted...
Nordstrom, Clyde The Japanese People
Clyde Nordstrom did a lot of sightseeing in Japan. He visited a Shinto temple and just roamed around. He thought the...
Morgan, Fred The Jump into Normandy
Fred B. Morgan, Junior [Annotator's Note: a medic with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry...
Marr, John W The Jump into Normandy
John W. Marr and the men of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment loaded into their transport airplanes on the evening...
Cox, Neil "Jack" The Korean War
Neil Cox remembers the Germans would take hostages from the school his wife went to. They would take all the Jewish...
Winter, William The Last Good War
William Winter recognized during his OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] class how important education was...
Langrehr, Henry The Last Good War
Henry Langrehr looks at it [Annotator's Note: World War 2] as the last good war. The country was united, we were doing...
Schmitt, Warren The last months of the war
It was not quite dark when Warren Schmitt linked up with the engineers who had stopped him [Annotators Note: Warren...
Kinney, Gabriel The Last Year of the War
On 10 November [Annotator's Note: 10 November 1944], Gabriel Kinney was sent back to the airport [Annotator's Note: at...
Kinney, Gabriel The Leeches were Worse than the Japanese
Gabriel Kinney occasionally encountered Burmese civilians. For the most part the natives did not care who they were....
Smith, Jacques The Leyte Campaign
Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...
Hughes, Lowell The Long Trip Home
Lowell Hughes thought he would be home by 4 July 1945. When his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 120th Engineer...

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