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Keller, Richard Returning Home
Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] got evacuated after...
Simpson, Joseph Returning Home
Joseph Simpson was discharged from the service on 26 February 1946. When he was in Bremerhaven, Germany preparing to...
Berkman, Harold Returning Home
Harold Berkman returned to the United States via New York harbor. He arrived at night with the Statue of Liberty and...
Heinly, Robert Returning Home
Robert Harvey Heinly [Annotator's Note: with the 3463rd Ordnance Medium Maintenance Company] got orders to turn all his...
Cole, Wendell Returning Home
[Annotator's Note: Wendell Delavan Cole suffers from Parkinson's disease and needs the assistance of his son to...
Rothenheber, Paul Returning Home
Paul Rothenheber was excited to be back home. He smoked alot of cigarettes at the time. When he would go home, he gave...
Shapiro, Lester Returning Home
Lester Shapiro could have stayed in the service and been a Warrant Officer. He was discharged at Fort Dix [Annotator's...
Elliott, John Returning Home
John Elliott made one more mission after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...
Loidolt, Raymond Returning Home and Closing Thoughts
Raymond Loidolt took a Navy destroyer back to the United States from China. They went through mines [Annotator's Note:...
Dorsey, Mason Returning Home and Concentration Camps
When Mason Dorsey was returning to the United States, he says that if they would have said they were returning to...
Ram, Walter Returning Home and Dealing with the War
Walter Ram left Europe by ship on 3 June [Annotator's Note: 3 June 1945], and reached the United States on 11 June. Red...
Hayes, Clifford "Cliff" Returning Home and Discharged from the Army
[Annotator's Note: Clifford Suthern Hayes served on occupation duty in Austria after the war ended.] Clifford Suthern...
Brasel, Robert Returning Home and Postwar
Robert J. "Bob" Brasel and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Platoon, Battery C, 389th Antiaircraft Artillery (...
Machaud, Albert Returning Home and Postwar
[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] In March 1949, Albert "Al" Machaud received...
Rosenzweig, Abraham Returning Home and Postwar
Abraham Rosenzweig suffered from a punctured eardrum when an explosion occurred near his boat near the island [...
Sherbecoe, Martin Returning Home and Postwar
Martin Sherbecoe served for over eight months [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Japan] and earned enough points...
Hanning, David Returning Home and Postwar
David Hanning was assigned as an assistant to a lieutenant and then to the headquarters of an adjutant general where he...
Ruiz, Nolan Returning Home and Postwar Life
As the war was ending, Nolan Ruiz's German captors had taken the prisoners and marched them west so that they could...
Radford, Charles Returning Home and Postwar Life
Charles Radford was put in a tent with a bunch of wounded guys after the surgery [Annotator's Note: after being wounded...
Smith, Thomas Returning Home and Postwar Life
After the war ended, Thomas J. Smith, Junior and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine...
Howard, William Returning Home and Postwar Life
After the war ended, William Edwin Howard started a newspaper. He was sent to Darmstadt, Germany for a long time. He...
Engel, Robert Returning Home and Postwar Life
The day the war ended, Robert Engel was in a town in Germany. The manure and urine from cows were kept in the town for...
Rugeley, Robert Returning Home and Postwar Life
Robert S. Rugeley [Annotator's Note: with the 285th Signal Pigeon Company] oversaw prisoners at Dachau [Annotator's...
Guillory, Lloyd Returning Home and Postwar Life
Lloyd Guillory returned to the United States on a Matson cruise ship. There were 800 officers and nurses as passengers...
Bowsher, Walter Returning Home and Reenlistment
Walter Bowsher was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: after his liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Japan] where he...
Tallon, Donald Returning Home and Reflecting on the War
Don Tallon [Annotator's Note: a liberated former prisoner of war in Magdeburg, Germany] saw of couple of his former...
Longhoffer, Garland Returning Home and Reflections
Garland Virgil Longhoffer returned home on 1 September 1946, after one year in Japan. He learned some of the Japanese...
Johnson, Alfred Returning Home and Reflections
Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. returned to Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] with some of his...
Fishman, Arthur Returning Home and Reflections
Arthur Fishman returned to the United States sometime in April or May 1946. He returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...
Campisano, Frank Returning Home and Reflections
Frank Campisano was happy to go back home. He was single while in the military and was having a good time. He went...
Dana, Newton Returning Home and Reflections
Newton Dana and his crew returned home by flying their bomber [Annotator's Note: a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy...
Andry, Robert Returning Home and Reflections
Robert Andry was discharged from the Army in August 1945. He was told he would be able to go on leave [Annotator's Note...
Gierka, Eugene Returning Home and the War Ends
A 109 Focke-Wulf [Annotator's Note: either a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft or a Focke-Wulf Fw 190...
Bellecci, John Returning Home, Completing His Education and Postwar Career
John Bellecci arrived home [Annotator’s Note: in January 1946 after serving about three months of occupation duty in...
Gagel, Helen "Cosgrove" Returning Home, Discharge and Postwar
Helen Gagel got off the boat and went by train to be signed off [Annotator’s Note: discharged]. She took another train...
Green, Arthur Returning Home, Discharge, and Reflections
Arthur George Green spent about a year on occupation duty in Japan [Annotator’s Note: stationed in Kyushu and Shikoku...

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