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Lents, Robert The Guards and the Guarded
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...
Jostad, Glen The Heydekrug Run
Glen Jostad and other POWs were evacuated from their initial Stalag [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug,...
Goldstein, Rosette The Hideaway and Her Father
Rosette Goldstein met her father at a farm after fleeing Paris. They adored each other. She was not afraid because he...
Love, John The Horrors of Camp O’Donnell
After the fifth day on the march in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Bataan Death March, the forcible transfer by the...
Aalders, Johannes The Hunger Winter
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Johannes Aalders if life noticeably changed in his home when the Germans...
Henleben, Edwin The Invasion of Attu
Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...
Fiore, Dominick The Invasion of Normandy
Dominic Fiore [Annotator's Note: with the 39th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division] arrived overseas, stationed at...
Mayer, Philip The Invasion of Okinawa
Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...
Davis, Edna The Japanese
Edna Davis did not pay particular attention to the war other than the loss of people. War has changed but she is not...
Lauderdale, Dell The Japanese
Dell Lauderdale went into the areas outside the prison while he was in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: While at Sugamo Prison...
Sullivan, George The Japanese Leave the Camp
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war held at the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp in Sandakan,...
Dendy, Lloyd The Korean War and Parting Thoughts
Lloyd Dendy met the toughest guy ever in Korea. He had been hit in the cheek by shrapnel and lost a lot of his teeth....
Stewart, Roy The Last Days on Iwo Jima
Roy Stewart's unit [Annotator's Note: 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] got word that there would be a...
Leefe, Guy The Last Week of the War
Guy Leefe, Jr. was in Lemgo, Germany when the war ended. Prior to that, Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: US Army General,...
Kinney, Gabriel The Last Year of the War
On 10 November [Annotator's Note: 10 November 1944], Gabriel Kinney was sent back to the airport [Annotator's Note: at...
Smith, Jacques The Leyte Campaign
Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...
Crosby, Thomas The Liberation of the Santo Tomas Internment Camp
On the evening of 3 February 1945, Thomas Crosby had gone to get hot water for his room monitor to drink a cup of hot...
Weinreich, Frieda The Lodz Ghetto
A couple of months after Lodz [Annotator's Note: Lodz, Ploand] was taken, all the Jews were put in the Lodz Ghetto....
Ram, Walter The Long March and Liberation
Walter Ram and the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] who could walk were marched out of Stalag XVII as the...
Hughes, Lowell The Long Trip Home
Lowell Hughes thought he would be home by 4 July 1945. When his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 120th Engineer...
Blonder, Erwin The Lost Battalion and Going Home
Erwin Blonder remembers Marty Higgins [Annotator's Note: US Army Captain Martin J. Higgins] sending a sergeant and 35...
Bouton, Helen The March to Bergen-Belsen
[Annotator's Note: Helene Bouton was forced to walk to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Bergen, Germany, from...
Field, Richard The Mediterranean
Richard Field was overseas for about 21 months. His son was born nine months after he returned. They sailed out in a...
Campbell, John The Merchant Marine and Admiral King
John Campbell says that President Truman [Annotator's Note: Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States] had...
Lewis, Claude The Mountain Division
Claude L. Lewis kissed the ground when he returned to the States [Annotator’s Note: United States]. He had enough...
Woolf, Basil The Normandy Invasion
Basil Woolf and his landing craft [Annotator's Note: LCH-269] beached on D-Day at Ouistrehan [Annotator's Note: Sword...
Biondo, Frank The Normandy Invasion
Frank Biondo was on deck crossing the English Channel for D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France...
Stevens, Phineas The Pacific and Captain Scruggs
[Annotator's Note: Phineas Stevens was ordered to join a Landing Ship Tank flotilla, LST Flotilla 7, from San Francisco...
Oney, James The Pacific to Home
On Treasury Island [Annotator's Note: Stirling Island, Treasury Islands, Solomon Islands], James Oney was in charge of...
Snyder, John The Pacific War
After leaving Italy, John Snyder was transported to another ship in the Pacific because they needed more corpsman out...
Belliard, Diana The Paris Years
When Diana Belliard and her family left [Annotator's Note: when they left Berlin, Germany] they first went back to the...
Grenny, Guy The Philippines
[Annotator's Note: Guy Grenny was stationed at the Naval Air Station in San Diego, California.] Grenny served food and...
Grass, Philip The Philippines
Philip Grass remembers that a Japanese captain was killed the first day they were there [Annotator’s Note: referring to...
Cahoon, Robert The Philippines, War's End, and Going Home
Robert Cahoon briefly stayed on Biak in the Netherlands East Indies [Annotator's Note: in May 1944, Cahoon left New...
Darling, William The Point at Peleliu
William Darling [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion,1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was on the...
Leaming, Jack The Prisoner Experience
Before the war, Jack Leaming had a Japanese friend in the second grade, whose parents sold Japanese clothing on the...

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