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Hopkins, Lewis Segment 1
Hopkins grew up on a small farm in Georgia. It was a tenant farm. Hopkins father was farming a piece of property that...
Candelaria, Richard Segment 1
Richard Candelaria was born in El Paso, Texas. He served in the US Army Air Corps and the Air Force. Candelaria's...
Feightner, Edward "Whitey" Segment 1
Feightner was in VF-3 [Annotator's Note: Fighter Squadron 3] with Butch O'Hare [Annotator's Note: Edward Henry “Butch”...
McKee, Ralph Segment 1
McKee was born on September 19, 1921 in Southern Oklahoma. As was the case in most births in those days, he was born on...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 1
Baptiste was born in Saint James Parish, Louisiana on 4 November 1916. He is in town [Annotator's Note: New Orleans]...
Gatewood, Joel Segment 1
Gatewood was born in Decatur, Nebraska in 1921. He lived there until he went into the service. He was in his first...
Johnson, Oscar Segment 1
Oscar Johnson was born in November 1925 in Pompano Beach, Florida. He had two brothers and a sister. His parents were...
Deen, Braswell Segment 1
Deen was born in McCray, Georgia. His father was the president of South Methodist College. He was one of three kids....
Standifer, Leon Segment 1
Standifer was born on April 24th, 1925 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was walking down the street in Clinton, Mississippi...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 1
Earnest was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was born on April 1st, 1917. HIs father was in the Light Infantry Blue,...
Cole, Richard Segment 1
Richard Cole was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1915. After graduating from high school he went to work on a farm for 75...
Zager, Raymond Segment 1
Raymond Zager was born in December 1924 in Los Angeles, California. His father was out of work for a while but was able...
Kassal, Bentley Segment 1
Kassal was born in Harlem, New York on 28 February 1917. His parents were Polish immigrants. At a young age, his family...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 1
Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...
Ehlers, Walter Segment 1
Ehlers served in Company L and Company C of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He enlisted in October...
Leisey, Alvin Segment 1
Leisey was born in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania May 10th, 1923. He moved to Honey Brook, Pennsylvania where he ended up...
Kuroki, Ben Segment 1
Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...
Stegmeier, James L. Segment 1
Stegmeier was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1922. At the time of the interview he is 85 years old. He attended Grandview...
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 1
James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 1
Clifford Rackley was born near Tifton, Georgia. He was young during the depression and saw the problems the big farmers...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 1
Ettlinger was born in Karlsruhe in the Southwest corner of Germany in 1926. He was born into an affluent family who had...
Lazarick, Len Segment 1
Lazarick was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1923. In those days Camden was a nice city with many large manufacturing and...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 10
Rackley did not have much of a relationship with his commanding officer [Annotator's Note: Rackley is referring to his...
Luckadoo, John Segment 10
John Luckadoo had no regrets about returning to the United States after completing his 25 combat missions. The brass...
Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 10
Lynn Compton had his orders changed so he could play baseball in Paris. He would look around for facilities for the...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 10
Out of all the men Galloway knew and the men around him, no one was killed on the first day of the Bulge. Galloway met...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 11
Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...
Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 11
Lynn Compton remembers the death of Robert Kennedy. He jumped into his car to go to the DA's office because he knew it...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 11
Hanna wanted to return to the US through San Francisco but ended up coming in through Seattle.He was sent to Madigan...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 12
There is no superior country and no one has the right to take over another country. The world has not learned that...
Baker, Vernon Segment 12
Vernon Baker looked at things differently after the war. He used to think of himself as a killer but then he started to...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 12
Interviewer asks Delewski if his experience on the Laffey changed him. On the day that all of this happened [Annotator'...
Disanza, William Segment 12
William Disanza worked in the office for Falcon Buick. His job was to be the follow up guy. He would contact the...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 12
Baptiste would be watchful. There are countries and people who want to see this country go under so he believes that we...
Deen, Braswell Segment 12
Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 12
While Childers was a cadet he was asked by Colonel Mangrum if he had received a Purple Heart. When he told Mangrum that...

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