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Brown, Louis The B-29 Superfortress and Reflections
Louis J. Brown, Jr. reflects on the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]. He first laid...
Stefaniak, Joe The Bulge to Postwar
[Annotator's Note: Joseph Stephaniak served in the Army as a paratrooper in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute...
Parra, Pedro The End of the War and Postwar Service
Pedro Parra was getting ready to get to go to Japan when the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...
Blackwell, Astley The Future Depends on the Past
Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...
Burrus, William The G.I. Bill
William Burrus used the G.I. Bill to attend the University of Alabama [Annotator's Note: in Tuscaloosa, Alabama]. The G...
Murphy, Thomas The G.I. Bill and Educating America
Basic training was intense for Thomas Murphy. He was impressed by the fact that there were illiterate people in the...
Linett, Joseph The G.I. Bill and Post War Career
The skills he mastered during World War 2 were helpful to Joseph Linett in his engineering career. The world was...
Taylor, Claude The G.I. Bill and Service During the Korean War
Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...
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...
Carver, Jack The Movie "Fury" and Postwar
Jack Carver remembers shrapnel landing on his neck as being his most memorable experience of World War 2. [Annotator's...
Russo, James The Philippines, Being Injured, Going Home and College
James Russo deployed to the Philippines as a forward observer pilot. [Annotator's Note: Russo deployed with the 596th...
Beard, Oral The War Ends
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...
Cummings, Mary The War Ends
Mary Cummings was on duty on the night shift when she got news that an atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapon...
Stevens, Kenneth The War Ends
Kenneth E. Stevens heard the war was over when they [Annotator's Note: Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment,...
Tanenbaum, Melvin The War Ends
Melvin S. Tanenbaum hated the Japanese during the war. They made sneak attacks with no warning. It was a blessing to...
Sutcliffe, Albert The War Ends
Albert G. Sutcliffe was taken from the Battle of Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26...
Thompson, Thomas The War Ends
Thomas D. Thompson was in the Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Lingayen Gulf, Philippines] aboard a PC [Annotator's...
Brien, Russel The War Ends
Russell Brien left Italy in May after the war in Europe had finished. He ended up in Bangor, Maine. He was supposed to...
Hillard, Frank The War Ends
Frank Hilliard [Annotator's Note: with the 5th Air Force] enjoyed his stay at Ardmore [Annotator's Note: Ardmore,...
Skare, Theodore The War Ends
After leaving Morotai, Theodore Skare and his unit [Annotator's Note: 209th Malaria Survey Unit] went to Clark Field,...
Anderson, William The War Ends
William Anderson returned to San Diego [Annotator's Note: California] on Thanksgiving Day [Annotator's Note: 22...
O'Hara, Richard The War Ends
Richard O'Hara was pissed off that he was not going home when the war ended. His wife, who was his high school...
Neste, Norman A. The War Ends and Going Home
After he was wounded, Norman Neste spent a few weeks in France. He was in England when the war ended May 1945. He had...
Campbell, John The War's Effect on America
John Scott Campbell thinks that "tin horn dictators" will have a harder time getting a hold on a country [Annotator's...
Schafer, Leon Thoughts About the War
Leon Schafer has been to Europe a number of times since 68 [Annotator's Note: 1968] when all of his family went. His...
Campbell, John Thoughts on America
John Campbell wrote about what would have happened if he had had the G.I. Bill. His life would have been different...
Foerster, David Thoughts on the War
[Annotator's Note: After the war ended in Europe, David Foerster was assigned to a hurricane tracking crew out of Key...
Fronk, Wesley Thoughts on the War
The best thing that came out of the war for Wesley Fronk was the G.I. Bill. Even though he did not stay in the service...
Tyson, Marvin Three Typhoons
Marvin Tyson went to college under the G.I. Bill at New York University [Annotator's Note: in New York, New York]. He...
Drake, Betty Training and Assignment
Betty Sue Drake went to paymaster school after basic training and was sent then to Washington [Annotator's Note:...
Samrow, Joseph Training, Deployment, and Return Home
Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow [Annotator's Note: enlisted in the US Navy in 1944, trained as a torpedo bomber gunner and...
Wombacher, Delbert USO Shows and German Prisoners
Delbert Wombacher used the G.I. Bill after the war by attending a school in Omaha, Nebraska. He was working and went at...
Snyder, Phillip "PB" USS Arenac (APA-128)
[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] On 10...
Newsom, James USS Sarsfield (DD-837)
James Newsom was assigned to the USS Sarsfield (DD-837) in New York. The Sarsfield was larger than his previous...
Symons, John Various Reflections
In China, John Symons had one slit trench to take cover in in the event of a Japanese attack. One guy jumped in, hit...
Haffner, Robert Veterans Affairs Difficulties and Reflections
Robert Haffner took advantage of the G.I. Bill's unemployment benefits and drew 20 dollars per week in 1946 and 1947...

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