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Romano, Joseph Italy
Joseph Roman was in Africa for a few months before going to Naples, Anzio, Apennines – all over [Annotators Note: Italy...
Mancuso, Frank Italy
The next morning Frank Mancuso is awoken by a lieutenant. He quickly learned that his unit had moved out of the city....
Mannarino, John Italy and North Africa
John Robert Mannarino [Annotator's Note: serving as a translator for the US Army in Italy] was the only one who spoke...
Hayashi, Shizuya Italy and Returning Home
The terrain in Italy was mountainous. Shiyuza Hayashi wonders how people live in the mountains. It must be a tough life...
Leonard, Edward Italy to France
Edward J. Leonard was shipped to Italy in May 1943. The first day they were in combat. Leonard had a map of the area he...
Horn, Arnold Italy to Southern France
Arnold Horn remembers the Italians did not want to fight. He saw the Italians hang Mussolini [Annotator's Note: Italian...
Payne, Carl Italy to War's End
Carl Payne went to Italy right after the invasion started. They landed in the Port of Rome [Annotator’s Note: Rome,...
Ito, Susumus Ito's First Shots of the Italian Campaign
[Annotator's Notes: Susumas Ito served in the Army as an instrument sergeant in the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion,...
Bath, Garland Iwo Jima
Garland Bath and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 483rd Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion] were attached to the 5th...
Babbits, Oliver Iwo Jima and Postwar
Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...
Jones, James Jackie Robinson and Racism
The racism James B. Jones experienced was bad. He thought it was worse for northerners who went to the south. In 1935...
Mason, Leslie Jailer to Discharge
Leslie B. Mason, Junior was on MP [Annotator's Note: military police] duty for a while and then became a jailer [...
O'Rorke, James Japan Attacks the Philippines
James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft Warning, 5th Interceptor Command,...
Kerchum, Paul Japan Invades the Philippines
After two years in the Army, Paul Kerchum was discharged, but re-enlisted for another overseas deployment. His second...
Scherer, Monroe Japan Surrenders
[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer survived Typhoon Louise on Okinawa, Japan on 9 October 1945.] Some groups rebuilt the...
Delaune, Lawrence Japanese and Filipinos
[Annotator's Note: Lawrence J. Delaune, Sr. served on Luzon, Philippines with the 25th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized...
Ledesma, Trinidad Japanese Atrocities
Trinidad Ledesma feels that some of the kamikazes were fanatics and some were not. One had landed on Mindanao,...
Kinzler, Robert Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
On 27 November [Annotator's Note: 27 November 1941], Robert Kinzler said, Hawaii went on an island-wide alert against...
Galella, Armando Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
On 7 December 1941, Armando Gelella rose early and with leave papers in hand, went to breakfast with a buddy who was to...
Howland, Gilbert Japanese Elephant Supply Train
[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] When the fighting in Walawbum [Annotator's Note...
Inoshita, Masaji Japanese Feelings About Serving in the US Army
Masaji Inoshita had very little contact with his parents over the course of the war. He would ask the Japanese...
Glusing, Benjamin Japanese Prisoner Painting
Benjamin Albert Glusing's friends operated the prisoner of war stockade on New Caledonia. Glusing liked to visit his...
Johnson, Burton Japanese Prisoners of War
Burton Johnson had been in the service for three years when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: on...
Gulotta, James Japanese Surrender and Occupation Duty
James Gulotta was training to hit Tokyo when the war ended. His unit was to land near Yokohama but the war ended before...
Hirabayashi, Grant Japanese Surrender in China and Going Home
Grant Jiro Hirabayashi recalled preparing to go to Japan for an invasion, but he also knew from interrogating many...
Inoshita, Masaji Japanese Translation in India
[Annotator's Note: Masaji Insohita served in the Army as a Japanese translator and interrogator in the China-Burma-...
Goodwin, Kenneth Japanese Troops on Panay Island
Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was the historian for the unit [Annotator's Note: Goodwin was a member of the I...
Shima, Terry Japanese-American Internment
Terry Shima's family was not interned during the war. There was not a mass internment in Hawaii. When President...
Bannai, Paul Japanese-American Internment
When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...
Tweedt, Vernon T. Japanese-American Soldiers
Vernon Tweedt does not recall where he was when a trainload of people came through the town. They were packed like...
Ito, Susumus Japanese-Americans from Hawaii
On 7 December 1941, Susumas Ito had a pass to go to town for that morning. He heard over the radio about the attack on...
Johnson, Kaare Jeep Accident in France
Kaare Allan Johnson's unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...
Sapp, Walter Jets and Nazi Women
Walter Sapp never personally saw a German tank in combat. He could hear them. At the Remagen Bridge [Annotator's Note:...
Mermelstein, Seymour "Cy" Jews and Nazis
Seymour Mermelstein had no idea of how the Jews were being treated by the Nazis. He did know through relatives of his...
Payne, Robert Joining 101st Airborne Division
Robert Payne's father was a flyer in World War 1. He had his own biplane after the war, and they would fly together....
Hairston, Joseph Joining a Segregated Army
Joseph Hairston was born in May 1922 in a log cabin just outside of Martinsville, Virginia. He stayed in Virginia for...

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