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Schmedemann, Keith Segment 1
Schmedemann was born in Junction City, Kansas where he grew up and attended high school. He went to Kansas State...
De Mers, William Segment 1
DeMers was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on March 3rd, 1915. He had 6 brothers and 6 sisters. All 13 lived to be to...
Bishop, Charles Segment 1
Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 1
John Vessey goes by Jack. His father was John and his son is named John and his grandson is named Jack. They all...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 1
Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...
Barnes, William Segment 1
William Barnes was born and raised in Clarksdale, Mississippi. After high school he attended Bowling Green Business...
Mack, Frank Segment 1
Mack was born in his grandparent’s home. He lived there as an infant. When he got a little older his parents moved to a...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 1
Biddle was born in Daleville, Indiana on November 28th, 1923. Daleville had about nine hundred people. He lived there...
Christie, Robert Segment 1
Robert Christie was born on Long Island, New York. Christie came from an all New York family. His mother’s family had...
Dennis, David Segment 1
David A. Dennis was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1919. He was living on a farm when the crash came. His father was a...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 1
Freddie Ohr was born in Portland, Oregon in 1919. When he was four years old they moved to Idaho where Ohr grew up. Ohr...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 1
Steve Pisanos was on the first Schweinfurt mission during which 60 B-17s were lost. The bombers were escorted by the...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 1
Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...
Spivey, Leonard Segment 1
Leonard Spivey was born on a farm five or six miles north of Artesia, New Mexico. At a very young age Spivey was on the...
Karr, Robert Segment 1
Karr grew up in West Virginia in a little town called Mannington. His father and his relatives worked in the oil fields...
Greer, Richard Segment 1
[Annotators note: Interview starts off in mid conversation about the format of the interview.] Richard Greer was born...
McNeil, Esther Segment 1
Esther McNeil grew up on a farm in western Pennsylvania. She was the sixth of eight children.After going into nursing...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 1
The Laffey [Annotator's Note: US Navy destroyer USS Laffey, DD-724] had new radar and sonar equipment and that put the...
Myers, Leroy Segment 1
Myers didn't lock his doors when he was growing up. If strangers came by, you would share food with them. People came...
Hawk, John Segment 1
Hawk begins talking about how he refused to go to Washington D.C. to accept the Medal of Honor because he was tired of...
Milosevich, Risto Segment 1
Risto Milosevich grew up in East Los Angeles, California. During summer vacation he would repair concrete driveways to...
Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 1
Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 1
Vejtasa and the interviewer are getting acquainted and set out how the interview will be conducted. The interviewer...
Crain, Joe Segment 1
Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...
Jones, David "Davey" Segment 1
Jones was born in Oregon. When he was 10 years old, 1 of his sisters contracted tuberculosis so his mother elected to...
Akins, Robert Segment 1
Robert Akins discusses how the heroes were the ones who gave their lives 10,000 miles from home. Of the 120 men in his...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 1
Charles Scheffel was born in Eden, Oklahoma in 1919. His father was an illegal immigrant from Sweden and passed away...
Mann, Karl Segment 1
Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....
Weinart, John Segment 1
John Weinart had a house robbery a few years prior to this interview and his weapons were stolen. He had brought back...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 1
Theodore Van Kirk, known as Dutch, was born in Pennsylvania. He grew up in a very small town and he described himself...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 1
Jimmie Kanaya was born in Clackamas, Oregon in 1920 and grew up working on a farm from dawn to dusk. He experienced the...
Erickson, Martha Segment 1
Erickson was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin in 1918. Her father was still fighting in World War I in France. He...
Cokinos, Michael Segment 1
Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...
Perrett, Marvin Segment 1
Marvin Perrett was born in September 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was on his way home from church with his...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 1
Galloway was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923. Galloway was very fortunate during the Great Depression. His father had a...
Wicker, Benjamin Segment 1
Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...

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