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[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan did not...
John Poole was in Innsbruck for a couple of weeks [Annotator's Note: following the German surrender on 8 May 1945]. It...
The French were happy that Benjamin "Dusty" Rhoads and American forces were in France. [Annotator's Note: Rhoads was in...
Milton Fernandez left the Galapagos Islands and sailed for Hawaii. At that time, the Japanese were everywhere in the...
When Robert Bassemir arrived at Cologne [Annotator's Note: Köln (Cologne), Germany with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 415th...
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees at Santo Tomas [Annotator's Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp,...
Walter Henry Barton and his regiment [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 361st Infantry Regiment, 91st Infantry Division...
When Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery Battalion, 87th...
Charles Magnifico still suffers today from his injuries [Annotator's Note: Magnifico developed immersion foot syndrome...
Byron Herbert Meader's division [Annotator's Note: Meader was a member of Headquarters Company, 271st Infantry Regiment...
James L. Wheeler was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] to train for the Battle of Japan....
After the conclusion of World War 2, William Riggs' only thought upon arriving home was to seek out a job away from the...
Kent Butzer Kellegrew does not remember when he was discharged but remembers that he was on Guam [Annotator's Note:...
After the Japanese surrendered, James Stewart Rosenbaum thought he would be heading home, but he and his unit [...
Richard Tempus Dixon's time in the Philippines was interesting. Some of the natives got hold of some hand grenades and...
The war ended and the president [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] died...
At the end of the war, Robert Marovelli was on the staff of the training squadron, and toured with PT-558, helping to...
Joseph Hochadel was wounded in his left leg and had one surgery to fix it. He was in the hospital for approximately a...
John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...
[Annotator's Note: Howard Warren Stokes served in the 27th Infantry Division. Soon after the war's end, he was sent...
Frank Golemi was in France when the war ended. He flew an aircraft back to the United States. He thought he was going...
Frank Bostwick was en route back to the United States when the Germans surrendered on 8 May 1945. His air missions over...
Constance Negrotto worked on the PBY Catalina flying patrol bomber [Annotator’s Note: Negrotto was a technical...
John Holton Ford was deployed to France and joined the 3rd Army [Annotator’s Note: he was a second lieutenant battalion...
Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce went to work outside Vienna, Austria for the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force]....
Norman Weber recognized changes in his father when he returned on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...
The day after the Pearl Harbor attack [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...
Christopher Blake was born in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1921, but spent most of his life in...
James Gaffney was born in 1924 in Texarkana, Texas. His family moved to several places in Texas. By the time he was six...
Bernie Smith was born in March 1919 in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from high school and took some college courses at...
Grover Tyner was sent overseas to Naples, Italy, and operated a medical dispensary with the 310th Bomb Group [Annotator...
The war was over and John Scott Campbell was working at Montgomery Ward [Annotator's Note: American department store...
Robert Dannehl was a radio operator [Annotator’s Note: for the US Navy serving about the USS Hubbard (DE-211)]. He...
Stewart Bass and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Torpedo Squadron 9 (VT-9)] attacked Japanese supply ships with bombs...
Paul Hissey remembered when the war ended all the fighter planes were destroyed because they did not want them to fall...

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