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Bath, Garland Iwo Jima
Garland Bath and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 483rd Antiaircraft Automatic Weapons Battalion] were attached to the 5th...
Dietzel, Paul Iwo Jima
[Annotator's Note: Paul Dietzel served in the USAAF as a copilot on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in the...
Babbits, Oliver Iwo Jima and Postwar
Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was still on the ship when the Marines on Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan]...
Pritchard, James Iwo Jima and War's End
James H. "Jim" Pritchard was sent to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] after it had been...
Burke, Murphy Iwo Jima, Ramming the USS Ringgold (DD-500) and Back to the States
At 19 years of age, Murphy Burke witnessed the fight at Iwo Jima. He described the day as breaking grungy, with low...
Warne, Therese Japan Invades the Philippines
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] was eating...
Drucker, Lillian Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Brothers in the Service
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Lillian Drucker if she remembers what she was doing when she heard about the...
McMullen, Milton Japanese Attack on the Philippines
Milton L. McMullen, Sr. heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...
Johnson, Malcolm Japanese Prison Camps
Malcolm Johnson had been a civilian contractor on Wake Island when he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Japanese....
Gorman, Ted Japanese Prisoners on Saipan
[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...
Goodwin, Kenneth Japanese Troops on Panay Island
Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was the historian for the unit [Annotator's Note: Goodwin was a member of the I...
Gorman, Ted Japanese Were Brutal
[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...
Trindal, Wesley Joining Company F
[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal served in the US Army as a rifleman in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry...
Yatsu, Lawrence Joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Lawrence Yatsu went to Fort Meade, Maryland when he left Camp Blanding. From there they went overseas on a troopship....
Yoshihashi, Tokuji Joining the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
Tokuji Yoshihashi and his fellow replacements arrived there [Annotator's Note: in France] shortly after the 442nd...
Ridyard, Herbert Joining the 94th Infantry Division
Herbert W. Ridyard joined the 94th Infantry Division in Mississippi. The division was going on maneuvers in Tennessee...
Ballew, Thomas Joining the Fight in France
In August 1944 Thomas Ballew’s unit [Annotator's Note: the 231st Searchlight Battalion] got orders to go overseas. They...
Spangenberg, Nicole Joining the French Resistance and Returning Home to Paris
Nicole Sabbag Spangenberg's stepfather constantly listened to the radio to glean info on how the war was going outside...
Higgins, Richard Joining the Marines and Pearl Harbor
Richard Higgins joined the Marine Corps in 1940. He was set on the Marine Corps from the beginning. He never considered...
Leaming, Jack Joining the USS Enterprise (CV-6)
Jack Leaming was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1919. When he was three months old, his mother moved to Wildwood...
Gross, Ernest Journey to Auschwitz
In April 1944, the day after Passover, two Hungarian police officers woke the family of Ernest Gross, and told them...
Hamilton, Richard Journey to Stalag Luft IV
Richard Henry Hamilton bailed out of his plane, and after landing in a field he was greeted by a mob of villagers...
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...
Dillon, Gerard Jumping Into France
Gerard Dillon was fully loaded, had his face darkened, and was ready to go [Annotator's Note: on 4 June 1944]. About...
Singlaub, John Jumping into France
John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...
Howard, William Just Sheer Terror
William Edwin Howard loved his trip overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...
Schmitt, Warren Kamikaze Attack
Warren Schmitt witnessed a kamikaze attack on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Savo Island (CVE-78)}. The attacker...
Caraway, John Kamikaze Attack off Okinawa
A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...
Nicholas, John Kamikaze Attacks
John Nicholas experienced Japanese suicide attacks on his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Gayety (AM-239)]. A wooden...
Rosenzweig, Rollins Kamikaze Attacks on the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
Rollins Rosenzweig continued to fly missions over Okinawa after the attack on the Japanese battleship Yamato. Missions...
Bethard, Orville Kamikaze Strike on the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)
The Japanese left so the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS St. Lo (CVE-63)] secured from general quarters. Orville...
Bethard, Orville Kamikazes
[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with someone off camera talking about Orville Bethard seeing kamikaze aircraft...
Duff, Clarence Kamikazes
Clarence Robert Duff recalled picking up survivors from the USS Franklin (CV-13) during the kamikaze attacks off...
Bee, Donald Kamikazes Damage Intrepid
Donald H. "Don" Bee had an explosive, right-hand man named Patterson [Annotator's Note: no given name provided]. Bee...
Baker, Sterling Kamikazes, Scouts and Raiders and Navy SEALs
Sterling Baker was on the invasion of Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands]. When he was in Leyte [...
Van Wart, Fergus Kamikazes, Swells, and a Typhoon
When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

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