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Luers, Harold The Battle of the Bulge
Harold Luers arrived in Scotland [Annotator's Note: with Regimental Headquarters, 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th...
Raaen, John The Battle of the Bulge
John Raaen and the 5th Ranger Battalion was participating in the Saar Campaign when the Battle of the Bulge broke out...
Stefaniak, Joe The Battle of the Bulge
After the peninsula was captured, Joseph Stefaniak and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 507th...
Guidry, Lewis The Battle of the Bulge
Lewis Guidry entered combat first in France. The troops all knew exactly what to do and were prepared for their jobs....
Field, Richard The Battle of the Bulge
[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...
Houseman, Donelson "Don" The Battle of the Bulge
[Annotator's Note: Donelson Houseman served in the Army as the 81mm mortar platoon leader in Company D, 1st Battalion,...
Venverloh, Joseph The Battle of the Bulge
Joseph Venerloh was informed about the Battle of the Bulge from a notice on a bulletin board while they were in a rest...
Jameson, Andrew The Battle of the Bulge Begins
Andrew George Jameson's first assignment in Holland was a failure. They [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion,...
Mermelstein, Seymour "Cy" The Black Devils
Seymour Mermelstein was a member of the 1st Special Service Force [Annotator's Note: also referred to as "the Force"],...
Williams, Robert The Bocage and Band of Brothers
[Annotator's Note: Robert L. Williams served in the Army as a paratrooper in Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th...
Lesser, Benjamin The Bochnia Ghetto
Benjamin Lesser and his family entered the Bochnia ghetto. They had no choice. Lesser's brother-in-law, Michael,...
Beyer, Walter The Bowfin Submarine
[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The...
Van Eaton, Jack The Bulge
[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...
Hoehn, Basil The Bulge and into Germany
Basil C. Hoehn and his unit [Annotator’s Note: with the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion] set up in the woods outside of...
Combs, Monroe The Bulge and War's End
[Annotator's Note: Can hear muffled chatter throughout this segment.] In December 1944, Monroe "Tex" Combs [Annotator'...
O'Brien, Richard The Bulge and War's End
[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee shows the camera several pictures while he talks about events of World War 2.] In...
Gile, Richard The Bulge and War’s End
Richard Edward Gile fought in the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
Sapp, Walter The Bulge Begins
Walter Sapp's company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division]...
Gantz, Walter The Bushnell Project
Walter "Babe" Gantz volunteered for a secret mission made up of two medical officers and 58 enlisted me. They were sent...
Kelley, Archie The Coming War
Archie Kelley had done very well in high school and had no academic problems at all [Annotator's Note: while attending...
Howard, William The Crew
William Howard was flying in an airplane that another pilot had flown. They did not want to name their plane after his...
Dillon, Gerard The Day Before D-Day
Gerard Dillon learned from working with General Howell [Annotator's Note: US Army Brigadier General George P. Howell]...
Higgins, Richard The Death of Captain Haldane
Richard Higgins often wonders why he walked away when so many of his friends did not. Higgins knew that Captain Haldane...
Schraub, Jesse The Effects of the Bulge
Jesse Schraub served in the Army as a mortarman in Company A of the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion and took part in...
LeBlanc, Joyce The Eminent War
Joyce Leblanc's memories of the war are vivid. Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] came to power...
McNeely, Marigold The End of the War
Marigold McNeely remembers quite a celebration for the end of the war. For V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in...
Abbenhaus, Gerald The End of the War and Occupation Duty
Gerald Abbenhaus says that the temperature and the mud were hard to fight as the Germans. In January 1945 they drove...
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...
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...
Sadler, Richard The Home Guard
Just before he turned 16 years old, Burt Richard Sadler went to work in a factory that made grease guns for tank wheels...
Henleben, Edwin The Invasion of Attu
Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...
Mayer, Philip The Invasion of Okinawa
Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...
Witaker, Richard "Dick" The Japanese
Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...
Sullivan, George The Japanese Leave the Camp
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war held at the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp in Sandakan,...
Wells, Kenneth The Japanese Soldier and Okinawans
When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...
Stewart, Roy The Last Days on Iwo Jima
Roy Stewart's unit [Annotator's Note: 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] got word that there would be a...

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