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Ferrier, Harry Segment 5
When the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier] was attacked and ensign Mears and...
Stinson, Handy Segment 5
It was a wonderful experience. Stinson would not trade a million dollars for his experience in World War II. On average...
Gravois, Francois "F.D." Segment 5
The Americal [Annotator's Note: the US Army Americal Division] came in in October [Annotator's Note: October 1942] and...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 5
Paluch has pictures of the Malmedy Memorial. He does not think about the massacre that much anymore. He has other...
Currey, Francis S. Segment 5
After going past the site of the Malmedy Massacre, they kept going and their next major battle was in a town called...
Church, Ray Segment 5
The men were lined up waiting to be searched. A friend, Joe Perry, who later made full Commander devised a plan to get...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 5
They started taking off the most severely wounded. Another APD [Annotator's Note: a destroyer or destroyer escort...
Doi, Michael Segment 5
Michael Doi does not recall hearing about the death of President Roosevelt. Doi made a lot of Caucasian friends on the...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 5
The intelligence was good for the southern France operation. The intelligence officers claimed to know the rank and...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 5
Freddie Ohr flew in a P-64 and a P-35. He cannot find the P-64 in modern books about fighters. Both were forerunners to...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 5
Steve Pisanos scored his first victory on 21 May [Annotators Note: 21 May 1943]. They had taken bombers to Frankfurt,...
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 5
Baum remembers some of the men in his division. He talks about his feelings towards Creighton Abrams. Abrams was the...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 5
Kanaya felt that living during the Depression years and learning to live under those conditions, working and living on...
Rall, Gunther Segment 5
After losing his thumb Rall was out of combat for a while because his wound was infected.He went back to his wing early...
McClellan, James Segment 5
McClellan did not keep in touch with any of the men he served with after the war. He never attended any reunions. He...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 5
They went to the South Pacific to the Solomons [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. The ship was pretty crowded.At Mare...
Leahr, John Segment 6
Leahr believes that young people should be taught about what men like him went through. The racism and segregation he...
Murphy, Robert Segment 6
Robert Murphy's platoon leader, Lieutenant Dolan [Annotators Note: First Lieutenant John J. Dolan, also know as Red Dog...
Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 6
The 2nd Division took Leipzig, Germany. It was heavily fortified. In Leipzig they found doorways and stairways that led...
Stinson, Handy Segment 6
Most of the time, they got along with the Filipinos. Stinson notes that any foreigner who comes in and occupies another...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 6
Paluch believes that it is very important that institutions like the World War II Museum preserve the stories of people...
Church, Ray Segment 6
The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...
Benario, Janice "Janice Martin" Segment 6
Janice Benario met her future husband at a Latin seminar at Johns Hopkins. Benario’s husband took a position at Emory...
Bell, Bryan Segment 6
Bell has trouble bringing up exactly what his unit was doing at the time because he remembers it as a, "constant...
De Mers, William Segment 6
Prior to landing in New Guinea DeMers' unit was never given any jungle training. In Australia they were trained how to...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 6
They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...
Mack, Frank Segment 6
The battle ended on June 21st [Annotator’s Note: On Okinawa in 1945]. The Sixth Marine Division went on to China. Mack...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 6
Freddie Ohr had an aerial photographer in his group who had just come out of the photography school in Denver. He asked...
Wahlen, George Segment 6
Wahlen said he hesitated talking about the war when he came home, but sometimes the pressure was put on him to talk....
Woods, Edward Segment 6
Woods was upset after the war because he wasn't given the benefits of the G.I. Bill. A friend of his his who had been...
Greer, Richard Segment 6
Richard Greer thought very highly of the navy medical personnel who worked with them. The pharmacist’s mates were...
McNeil, Esther Segment 6
McNeil doesn't think that her time in the army changed her life in any way. She was able to see the world.She feels...
Myers, Leroy Segment 6
The heat of our bodies is what saved their lives. They had charcoal heaters but were not given any charcoal. It was...
Bollinger, Ardell Segment 6
Ardell Bollinger did not learn the names of the people who helped him or where he stayed because Bollinger thought he...
Rall, Gunther Segment 6
[Annotator's Note: for the first 35 seconds of this segment Rall is speaking German with someone in the room other than...
Deen, Braswell Segment 6
The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotator’s Note: Peleliu, September 1944]....

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