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Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 1
Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to...
Bollinger, Ardell Segment 1
Ardell Bollinger was born 3 November 1922 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Bollinger lived in Lock Haven for about 12 years...
Keema, John Segment 1
[Annotator’s Note: The interview begins with John Keema telling the interviewer about how not flying the Regensburg...
Kuroki, Ben Segment 1
Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...
Kalil, Louis Segment 10
Kalil does not know what happened to the P-47 pilot. The airmen were taken to a different camp from the infantry. He...
Murphy, Robert Segment 10
For Robert Murphy, returning to Sainte Mere Eglise and making the annual jumps was for his comrades. The guys he served...
Church, Ray Segment 10
They had to go through roll call everyday at the camp. They were all assigned different Japanese numbers. In 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...
Greer, Richard Segment 10
The last thing Richard Greer and his fellow Marines did before leaving Guadalcanal was to dedicate a cemetery in honor...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 10
The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...
Keema, John Segment 10
When John Keema came home, he was by himself. When he left England it was the last time he saw of any of his fellow...
Standifer, Leon Segment 10
Standifer tried to use a credit card on one of his return trips to Germany in 1996 and the man who he was trying to buy...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 10
The torpedo planes flew into Espiritu Santo. They stayed on Espiritu Santo for about a week. They sent 6 TBF's [...
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 10
James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 11
The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...
Brissie, Lou Segment 11
In 1948 Lou Brissie went to spring training, after which he returned to Philadelphia to play the Phillies. After the...
Murphy, Robert Segment 11
[Annotators Note: The interviewer mentions to Robert Murphy that he may be doing a series on great military leaders...
Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 11
The local principal got him to come up there and then teachers started asking him to speak to their classes. The...
Church, Ray Segment 11
They did not know the exact cause of his death since he was in halfway decent shape but initially they were told his...
Dennis, David Segment 11
Finally a jeep showed up with a lieutenant in it who told them [Annotators Note: David Dennis and his fellow POWs] when...
Karr, Robert Segment 11
Karr believed that Admiral Becton [Annotator's Note: F. Julian Becton was the Commander of the Laffey] was a very, very...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 11
Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...
Myers, Leroy Segment 11
There were 2 shifts working and they would usually meet coming out. When they got to the camp everyone was outside on...
Standifer, Leon Segment 11
They were not really Russian soldiers, but they were of Ukranian descent. Standifer called them Russians. If the...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 12
Lyle Bouck thought about escaping twice. Reid [Annotators Note: Bouck’s friend Matt Reid] and Bouck were on a detail...
Kalil, Louis Segment 12
Kalil mentions that it was quite an ordeal flying back to the United States because one of the engines caught on fire...
Murphy, Robert Segment 12
Robert Murphy had a lot of postwar contact with General James Gavin. In Murphy’s opinion the reason many high ranking...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 12
During one of his trips back to the United States Alexander Vraciu was offered the opportunity to fly the Zero [...
Church, Ray Segment 12
1 day a train loaded with bomb shells came into the camp and as it came through the camp a routine safety check found a...
Karr, Robert Segment 12
Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...
Ward, Harold Segment 12
[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...
Noack, John Segment 12
John Noack was visited again by the interrogator on the third day. Noack held fast and the interrogator did not ask...
Kleiss, Norman "Dusty" Segment 12
Norman Kleiss knew Peter Gaido pretty well. When Kleiss was about to take off for his first carrier landing he was...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 13
They were putting the gas into the vehicles that were selected to make the rest of the trip. Lyle Bouck recalled seeing...
Noack, John Segment 13
John Noack and the crew sat around and talked during Christmas. The day after all of the enlisted men were separated...
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 13
After the war ended, Baum returned to New York to get some of his wounds taken care of. He was so happy, because of his...

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