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Johnson, Willard Joining the Navy
[Annotator’s Note: Birds can be heard chirping in the background throughout this clip.] Willard Johnson was born in...
Grenny, Guy Joining the Navy
Guy Grenny was a cadet in ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps]. He was preparing for going to war....
Crawford, William Joining the Navy
William Ward Crawford was born in 1914 in Akron, Ohio. He was aware of the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...
Martin, Robert Joining the Navy
Robert Martin wanted to join the Navy because his friend had gone in before he did. He was a year or two older than him...
Brock, Pete Joining the Navy
Pete Brock and his twin brother enlisted in the Navy together on 27 April 1944 and were called to active duty on 6 June...
Burr, John Joining the Navy
John Burr joined the Naval ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] in college. He was always interested...
Werner, Morton Joining the Navy
Morton William Werner was born in February 1927 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He grew up in a middle-class home. His...
Nelson, Philip Joining the Navy
Philip Nelson was born in Woodbridge, New Jersey in December 1920. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: The...
Carman, Victor Joining the Navy
Victor K. Carman joined the Navy because he did not want to be a foot soldier in the Army or Marines. He had flown a...
Dorsey, Eugene Joining the Navy Armed Guard
Eugene Dorsey was born in St. Louis, Missouri in July 1924 and grew up in University City [Annotator’s Note: University...
Hagans, Benjamin Joining the Philippine Army
Benjamin Hagans enjoyed fishing. He did not wear clothes until he was six years old. He would climb trees and gather...
Reeder, John Joining the Royal Canadian Air Force
Colonel John Acree Reeder was born in January 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Boeing School of...
Barnett, Robert Joining the Scouts and Raiders
Robert Barnett was born in November 1926 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] and has lived there all of...
Campbell, John Joining the Service
John Edward Campbell was born in August 1920 in Porterville, California. His mother died in 1930 when he was ten years...
Van Eaton, Jack Joining the Service
[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...
Bornstein, Jack Joining the Service
Jack Bornstein was born in Brooklyn [Annotator’s Note: Brooklyn, New York City, New York] in January 1921. He grew up...
Werner, Jack Joining the US Army
[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner snuck out of Austria and made his way to the United States, arriving on 8 May 1939.]...
Campbell, John Joining the US Merchant Marine
John Campbell was mostly selling newspapers while in high school. He was making as much as a lot of men who were...
Cawley, David J. Joining the USS Enterprise (CV-6)
[Annotator's Note: David Cawley is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip. Cawley joined the Navy...
Stricklan, Mary Joining the WAACs
Mary R. Stricklan joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the United States Army, 1942...
Heany, Mary Joining the WACs
Mary T. Heany applied for and got the job. [Annotator’s Note: She worked in the wing shop at Boeing] She wore a...
Doroff, Lorraine Joining the WACS
Lorraine Doroff signed up for the Women Auxiliary Army [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Auxiliary Army Corps or WAAC;...
Smith, Thomas Joining the War to Saipan
When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...
Morgan, Dorothy "Dorothy Wuestner" Joining the WAVES
Dorothy Wuestner Morgan joined the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United...
Davis, Romay Joining the Women's Army Corps
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis did not know there was anything different than segregation. She had everything she needed...
Roed, Harold Jump School
Harold Roed tried to enlist in the Air Corps [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Corps] before his 18th birthday, passing...
Langrehr, Henry Jump School to England
Henry Langrehr had heard about the paratroopers. When he went to join, he told them that is what he wanted. At that...
Dillon, Gerard Jump School to Normandy
Everybody was scared the first time, and every time they jumped out of an airplane. Gerard Dillon says that if you were...
Morgan, Fred Jump School to North Africa
Fred B. Morgan Junior was one of the original members of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He went through jump...
Muller, Henry Jump School to the Pacific
Henry Muller did a great deal of physical training to become a paratrooper. He says the US Army has been jogging ever...
Billingsley, James Jump Training to Luzon
James Billingsley was at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia] in an area called The Frying Pan. The...
Wise, Curtis Jungle Training in Hawaii
After basic training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Curtis Winfred Wise went to Fort Rucker, Alabama to a new company...
Stephensen, Margaret Kennedy and King
[Annotator's Note: Margaret Stephensen was an administrative clerk at the Bureau of Naval Personnel in Washington, D.C...
Gallego, Anthony Kid in Los Angeles
Anthony “Tony” Gallego was born in November 1923 in Los Angeles, California. His father, a metalworker, made enough...
Brennan, Lincoln Korean War
After his discharge from serving in World War 2, Lincoln D. Brennan Sr. remained in the Naval Reserve and was called up...
Gillette, Thomas Korean War and Career
After Thomas W. Gillette completed college, the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953...

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