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Ikari, Norman Life after the Army
After he was separated from the Army, Ikari ended up in Los Angeles but he was a little lost. He had thoughts about...
Nordstrom, Clyde Life After the Military
Clyde Nordstrom was discharged in Seattle [Annotator's Note: Seattle, Washington] and went to Minneapolis [Annotator's...
Lauderdale, Dell Life After the Military
Dell Lauderdale retired from the military and went to work for a private security company called Wackenhut Security. He...
Walter, Robert Life after the war
[Annotators Note: The tape skips at the beginning of this segment. The segment begins with Robert Walter talking about...
Madison, Robert Life After the War
Robert Madison said his "war was basically September of 1944 until December of 1944" when he was wounded. He did not...
Campbell, John Life After the War
The war changed John Scott Campbell's life. He probably would have been a schoolteacher. He loves history. The war made...
Barfoot, Van Life After the War and Perspectives on Human Nature
Van Barfoot grew up on a farm and his family was all on the farm. They grew cotton and corn and made a living during...
Oliver, Byron Life After the War and Reflections
After being discharged from the Marine Corps, Bryon Oliver returned home. He returned to his old job, then moved to...
Peak, Betty "Betty Taylor" Life After War
Betty Peak had one thing happen that made her life enjoyable. She met a service officer from World War 2. He had flown...
Lebow, Cleatus Life and Entrance Into Service
Cleatus Lebow was born in 1924 in Happy, Texas. He grew up as one of 11 children during the Great Depression, but, as a...
Moran, John "Jack" Life and Thoughts
John Moran was home on leave when Japan surrendered [Annotator's Note: on 15 August 1945]. He had left Europe around 1...
Ehlers, Helen Life as a Marine
Helen Ehlers idolized the Marines. She was anxious to go to boot camp. She thought she was going to fight. She was...
Steele, Ben Life as a POW
Ben Steele was on a detail when he passed out on the side of the road, stricken with malaria. When he was finally able...
DeMott, Joseph Life as a Prisoner of War
Joseph DeMott worked in the farming fields, dug trenches, and built fences as a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: in...
Haggerty, June Life as a WAVE
June Catherine Elliott Haggerty was 23 years old when she went into the Navy. Her brothers were in the service already...
Warne, Therese Life as an Internee
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was an...
Bradley, John Life at Camp
For food, John Bradley and the internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment...
Mineta, Norman Life at Heart Mountion
Norman Mineta saw no newspapers in the camp. No radios were allowed. The only mail that arrived came from family...
Donaldson, Buck Life at Sea
Buck Donaldson had to be able to tell the difference between Morse code sounds [Annotator’s Note: Morse code is a...
Daniel, Lora Life at Union Carbide
Lora E. Daniel's husband worked at Union Carbide [Annotator's Note: Union Carbide Metallurgical Plant in Sheffield,...
Reese, Lloyd Life Back Home
Lloyd Reese had been liberated from a prisoner-of-war camp in Romania in September 1945 and returned to the United...
Alexander, Joseph Life Before 1939
Joseph Alexander was born in November 1922 in Kowal, Poland. He had a good life there until 1939. They belonged to...
Sarosi, George Life Before and After the War
George A. Sarosi was born in Budapest, Hungary in January 1938. His father was born in 1900 in Pozsony. Pozsony was...
Gantz, Walter Life Before the Army
[Annotator's Note: There is a continuous buzzing sound throughout this clip.] Walter "Babe" Gantz does not know how he...
Acevedo, Anthony Life Before the Army
Anthony Acevedo was born in San Bernardino, California and spent most of his childhood in Pasadena. His father was a...
Twible, Harlan Life Before the War
Harlan Twible was born in Gilbertville, Massachusetts in March 1922. He spent his first 18 years in Gilbertville but...
Grant, Olen "Reb" Life before the war
Olen Grant was born in Benton, Arkansas on 5 April 1923. After his father returned from World War I, he moved to Benton...
Rudloff, George Life Before the War
George Rudloff was born in San Francisco, California in 1923 and grew up there and in Palo Alto. His father started a...
Blanckenburg, William "Bill" Life Before the War
William Blanckenburg had an upper middle class upbringing, but they struggled during the Depression. Blanckenburg was...
Fisch, Robert LIfe Decisions
Robert Fisch continued to have food consumption as a first priority following his father's reinterment. [Annotator's...
Kushnir, Helen "Helen Preiss" Life During the War
[Annotator's Note: Helen Kushnir was in grade school when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941...
Zilliacus, Patrick Life in America
[Annotator's Note: Patrick Zilliacus emigrated to the United States from Finland with his mother and brother.] They...
Bailey Pratt, Caroline Life in an Interment Camp
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family were interned...
Simpson, Alan Life in Cody, Wyoming before World War 2
Alan K. Simpson was born in September 1931 in Denver, Colorado and grew up in Cody, Wyoming. His father was at Harvard...
Scully, William Life in England
William Scully [Annotator’s Note: serving with Company C, 1st Battalion, 406th Infantry Regiment, 102nd Infantry...
Tindal, Sullivan Life in Europe to Postwar Life
Sullivan Tindal recalls an instance when his superior officer would not give him enough K rations [Annotator's Note:...

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