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Stefanelli, Anthony Southern France and Germany
Once Anthony Stefanelli's unit [Annotator's Note: 36th Engineer Combat Regiment] had resupplied, they set out for...
Davis, Arthur Special Effects
Before the war, Arthur Davis worked in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] building a plant near the...
Dearman, Alfred Sports and Prison Visits
Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...
Shaw, Roger SS George Gayle
Roger Shaw was assigned to the SS George Gayle on the Industrial Canal while it was still being completed by the...
Strunk, Chester Stalag Life
Chester Strunk received only half the Red Cross parcels allocated to the prisoners. The Germans supplemented that food...
Strunk, Chester Stalag Luft III
Chester Strunk was transported by train from an interrogation center in Budapest to Stalag Luft III at Zagan near...
McLaurine, Luke Stalag Luft III
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was transported by passenger train to Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in...
Lafferty, Ralph Start of War
In 1936, Ralph F. Lafferty's oldest brother decided to join the military and worked with the CCC [Annotator's Note:...
Matsumoto, Roy Stateside Service
Roy H. Matsumoto returned to the United States and served five years in each of two separate locations. He had a good...
Boeke, Robert Stationed in Manila
Robert Boeke [Annotator's Note: with the 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division] went to Manila [Annotator's...
Gatlin, Carl Stuck in Italy
[Annotator's Note: An off-camera male interjects throughout this clip.] Carl Robert Gatlin and his regiment [Annotator'...
Jackson, Wilbur Submarine Action and War's End
Wilbur Lee Jackson knew the deck gun [Annotator’s Note: five inch, 25 caliber naval gun aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287...
Prager, Herman "Dutch" Submarine Life
Herman Prager would rise from his bunk on the boat depending on which watch he was assigned to perform. If he had the...
Prager, Herman "Dutch" Submarine Repair Duty
Herman Prager left for United States Navy boot camp in San Diego, California after the Christmas and New Year holidays...
Dearman, Alfred Sugamo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
Alfred Dearman says that Sugamo Prison [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] was the largest, most modern prison in Japan...
Ginrich, Ralph Surviving Prison Camp
Ralph “Bud” Ginrich had little to do for entertainment as a prisoner of war (POW). Some men played cards. There were no...
Wickersham, Obie Swimming the Rhine River
After the Battle of the Bulge, Obie Wickersham went back to France, only to be sent back to the front between...
Faust, Virgil Taken Prisoner in Germany
Taken captive, Virgil Faust went with the farmer to his house, and an older girl went off on a bicycle to alert the...
Coxe, John Taking the Offensive Through Germany
In the spring of 1945, John Coxe's 63rd Infantry Division went on the offensive, and his superior, Brigadier General...
Lovell, James The Astronaut Fraternity
Bringing to mind a long past event, James Lovell talked about when he was at the Naval Academy and attended the 1948...
Beaman, William The Australian Experience
Home base for William Beaman and the USS Flasher (SS-249) was Perth, Australia. At the end of a two month mission, the...
Stern, Guy The End of the War
Guy Stern was present in April 1945 when the allies liberated the German army prison at Torgau [Annotator's Note:...
Darphin, Irma "Irma Boulet" The End of the War
The soldiers were appreciative of the nurses. In England, Irma Darphin worked as a mail censor at night. There were 100...
Norberg, Willard "Bill" The Great Depression
In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...
Caraway, John The Great Typhoon
There was ongoing correspondence with people back home, and John Caraway was able to keep abreast of what was going on...
Murphy, Dawn "Dawn Higgins" The Higgins Family During the War Years
Dawn Higgins Murphy [Annotator's Note: the daughter of Andrew Jackson Higgins, the owner of Higgins Industries in New...
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,...
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...
Grimes, James The Philippines, Guam, and China
James William Grimes [Annotator's Note: assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 45 (CASU 45) aboard the USS Hornet (...
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...
Dietrick, Alfred The Salerno Invasion
After finishing training [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
Marcantel, Bernard The Siegfried Line and the Assault into Germany
At the Siegfried Line [Annotator's Note: a series of defensive fortifications built by Germany in the 1930s], the...
Boeke, Robert The Stolen Jeep
Robert Boeke's friends Sergeant Tate [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] and Corporal Gross [Annotator's Note:...
Szafran, Daniel The Suez Crisis and Getting Married
The last war for Holocaust Survivor Daniel Szafran was the 1956 war. [Annotator's Note: The Suez Crisis, or Second Arab...
Brown, Roscoe The Tuskegee Airmen and Red Tails Movies and Reflections
Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...
Frisco, Paul The USS Cushing (DD-797)'s Crew
Paul J. Frisco felt comfortable around some of the officers on the USS Cushing (DD-797). With others, he was not as...

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