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John DuBose signed on the SS Frenchtown as a messman. The ship was a T-2 tanker that was welded during construction and...
Dave Fleischer [Annotator's Note: serving with the 394th Fighter Squadron, 367th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force] got...
Vincent DeSalvo was with the 3rd Air Force and was sent to Calcutta, India. They served them chicken for Sunday dinner...
Lowell Hughes was part of the invasion of Anzio, Italy. German mortars and artillery were almost nonstop. The four...
Walter Barnes suffered from ADD [Annotators Note: Attention Deficit Disorder] but the war did not affect it. One time...
Going overseas was scary for Walter Sapp. He was three decks below seeing daylight. They were in a huge convoy and the...
William Currier's first seagoing engagement was aboard the USS Hall (DD-583) as part of a task group that escorted...
The scariest mission Charles Wesley Borders flew was just before the invasion of Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon,...
James Sandoz's battery [Annotator's Note: Battery A, 554th AAA (AW) Battalion, 29th Infantry Division] was credited...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Seymour Nussenbaum was an avid stamp collector...
John W. Towle was flying towards his target with its flying bombs. The Germans placed their antiaircraft weapons in...
The target that day [Annotator's Note: 24 April 1944, the day William Fili was shot down] was Ploesti [Annotator's Note...
On Martin Richard's last mission, the British were pinned down on the beachhead around Caen [Annotator's Note: Caen,...
After leaving the Battle of the Bulge, John Moran and the 87th Infantry Division chased the Germans out of Belgium. In...
From Camp Howze [Annotator's Note: Camp Howze in Gainesville, Texas; now Gainesville municipal airport], Bernard Brown...
Samuel Lombardo and his regiment [Annotator's Note: Lombardo was a platoon leader and the executive officer of Company...
Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] died in April [Annotator's...
Gus Gikas and his unit spent six weeks in North Africa, mainly in training exercises simulating shipboard problems that...
Raymond Downs had gone through a storm when he noticed the ship was zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-...
Back in the United States, the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) went into dry dock, and Lebow went to Texas on leave [Annotator...
Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...
Taken back to the time when the USS Perch (SS-176) was forced to dive and was then depth charged in the shallow waters...
John Moran and the 87th Infantry Division were headed to join the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: he describes a...
When Ralph Weymouth started flying from Guadalcanal they were originally quartered with a Seabee outfit but soon moved...
Reva Kibort and her surviving family members were jammed into crowded box cars to be sent to an unnamed destination....
Wanda Damberg witnessed the science building at the university converted into a small clinic [Annotator’s Note: Damberg...
On occasion, Charles Nathan Lane would be under fire from Japanese snipers. One Japanese sniper fired at a soldier...
A few days after leaving Australia, the ship 25 miles ahead of Ralph Crump's radioed that it had been under torpedo...
During the invasion of Southern France [Annotator's Note: Operation Dragoon, Provence, Southern France, 15 August 1944...
It was a lot colder in Germany than France for Johnny Ngai. They went in August [Annotator's Note: to France in August...
At Midway, Robert Swan was classified as a first pilot and navigator. The patrol plane commander was Jack Reid. Swan...
Robert Villars returned to the Armed Guard center at the New Orleans Naval Station [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans,...
Louis John Walter next sailed on a tanker, the Fort Stephenson [Annotator's Note: SS Fort Stephenson]. He had papers...
Late in the war, Glen Jostad was relocated to a German prisoner of war camp near Moosberg, Germany [Annotator's Note:...
Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...
Kelly Kuwayama landed in Marseilles, France and it was rainy and miserable. When they hit combat in France, it was...

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