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Balza, Firman Second Wave Attack at Pearl Harbor
Firman Balza lost track of time until mid-afternoon. He heard that his division officer, Mr. Crow, had been killed by...
Gomez, Hewitt Secret Missions
Hewitt Brian Gomez and his crew [Annotator's Note: 857th Bombardment Squadron, 801st Bombardment Group (Provisional)]...
Ambrose, Haney Securing Bougainville
While on Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], the island was not fully secured. Haney...
Ukrop, Samuel Securing Guam
Samuel Ukrop's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division] was not...
Murray, Charles Securing Hill 516
Charles Murray was told by the regimental commander on 13 December [Annotator's Note: 13 December 1944] to go south....
Curley, Walter Securing Iwo Jima
Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior [Annotator's Note: with the Military Police Company, Headquarters Battalion, 5th...
Stewart, Roy Securing Iwo Jima then Returning to Hawaii
While fighting on Iwo Jima, Roy Stewart can recall one time when his company [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd...
Cruise, Leslie Securing Normandy and Cherbourg
[Annotator's Note: Leslie Cruise continuously refers to a book that he has on his lap.] Leslie Cruise remarks that...
Powers, Robert Securing Okinawa
After the attack, Robert Powers continued moving south towards the battalion CP [Annotator's Note: command post]. They...
Graham, Chester "Chet" Securing the Causeway to Chef-du-Pont
Chet Graham [Annotator's Note: Chester Earl Graham] addresses the defense of the causeway to Chef-du-Pont [Annotator’s...
Geiger, John Seeing MacArthur
John Geiger remembers when he was in New Guinea [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 6th Army Special Reconnaissance...
Settles, Louise Seeing The World
Louise Settles worked in personnel, mostly making assignments. She had never left the United States before the Army....
Baker, Dan Segment 1
Dan Baker was born in Marietta, Ohio in 1923. He attended Indiana University and was in the ROTC program. Despite being...
Phoutrides, Ari Segment 1
Ari Phoutrides was born in Seattle in 1925. His father was a priest who was moved around the country often.After high...
Sabol, Emil Segment 1
Sabol was born in 1924 and knew when the war broke out that he would have to serve in one branch or another. He chose...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 1
Alexander Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi...
Rosen, Harold "Hank" Segment 1
Harold Rosen was born in Dallas, Texas in April 1925. His father owned his own business so the depression did not hit...
Stinson, Handy Segment 1
Stinson was born in Columbia, Alabama. After he and his classmates graduated from high school in 1943 they joined the...
Kirk, Mancel Segment 1
Mancel Grant Kirk was born near Finger, Tennessee in 1925 and spent his whole life there except when he went away for...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 1
[Annotator's Note: Interview begins mid-discussion with brief mention of the Malmedy Massacre, the massacre of 84...
Tenney, Lester Segment 1
Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 1
Biddle was born in Daleville, Indiana on November 28th, 1923. Daleville had about nine hundred people. He lived there...
Cokinos, Michael Segment 1
Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 1
Galloway was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923. Galloway was very fortunate during the Great Depression. His father had a...
Corbin, Robert "Bob" Segment 1
Corbin discusses the Battle of the Bulge, the Hammelburg Raid, and the book The Longest Winter [Annotator's Note: The...
Wiley, Delmar Segment 1
Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 10
Lyle Bouck did not like the taste of the food. The men were marched to a town east of Losheim and put in the basement...
Finkbeiner, Theodore Segment 10
The river crossing [Annotators Note: the 20 September 1944 crossing of the Waal River in Holland during Operation...
Zawada, Robert Segment 10
They crossed the river at Burgson to continue moving towards the camp [Annotator's Note: during the Hammelburg raid as...
Ford, Richard Segment 10
Richard Ford notes that they really got nailed at the Elbe River. They moved up to an area one afternoon and the next...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 10
Alexander Vraciu knew that the next time they saw air action it would be part of a landing somewhere. When his group...
Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 10
Yellin went to witness the ceremony in 2006. He met a few different Japanese soldiers and American military personnel...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 10
Freddie Ohr was sitting around in a tent for two and a half days. Sandborne informed him that there would not be a test...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 10
The thing Steve Pisanos thinks about the most from the war was when he crash landed in France. When he arrived at the...
Karr, Robert Segment 10
It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...
Noack, John Segment 10
John Noack went on to fly on 1 December to fly his 13th mission. It also happened to be Noack’s 24th birthday. He came...

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