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Osgood, Edgar 150 Missions
Edgar De Pue Osgood was not shot up on any of his missions [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...
Alexander, Joseph 1939 Division of Poland
In 1939, the Germans came into Poland and divided it into two parts. One was annexed by Germany and the other was...
Davis, Romay 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in England
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...
Little, Keith A Code Talker at Saipan and Okinawa
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Tso, Samuel A Code Talker at Saipan and Okinawa
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Little, Keith A Dream on Iwo Jima
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Tso, Samuel A Dream on Iwo Jima
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Kneflin, Charles A Family of Soldiers
Charles Kneflin was born in December 1923 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He had a very nice childhood. His mother was a home...
Jackson, Earnest A Great Country
Ernest Jackson was born in Sumter, South Carolina. His family migrated [Annotator's Note: Great Migration, or Black...
Lee, James A Japanese Friend
When James Lee was a young kid, he was close buddies with a Japanese boy whose name was Toshi Yamamoto. They were...
Klein, Gerda A Jewish Girl in Catholic School
[Annotator's Note: Annotator's Note: Gerda Klein can be very difficult to understand at points throughout this clip.]...
Hicks, Ora Pierce A Long Nursing Career
Ora Hicks treated injured soldiers using physiotherapy [Annotator's Note: disease treatment by means other than drugs...
Nakagawa, Ittsei A Maze of Destruction
[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...
Dahme, Maud A New Life in Amsterdam
[Annotator’s Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were reunited with their parents in April 1945 after hiding from the Nazis...
Dahme, Maud A New Name and Life
[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were sent to a Christian family's farm to hide from the Nazis.] They...
Soskin, Betty A Park Ranger at Age 94
Betty Soskin works at the Visitor Center [Annotator's Note: she became a National Park Ranger in 2006 at the age of 85...
Jackson, Earnest A Proud Moment
Ernest Jackson received his draft notice. He did not know if he was going to qualify. He was amazed he passed that day...
St. Amant, Philemon A Segregated Army
Philemon Andrews Saint Amant was in the British Isles [Annotator's Note: the United Kingdom, with the 190th Field...
Dahme, Maud Accurate Record Keeping
[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were sent to a Christian family's farm to hide from the Nazis.] The couple...
Constant, Nelson African-American Workers and Surviving a Hurricane
Nelson Constant's company [Annotator's Note: Humble Oil Company] hired 13 colored boys [Annotator's Note: African-...
Lee, James After the Pearl Harbor Attack
Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], martial law...
King, William After The War
William King did not want to stay in the Army after the war. He bought an Army surplus jeep with ten cartons of...
Bucksell, Norris Alcohol Use and Separatism
Norris Bucksell was in Italy during World War 2 as a litter-bearer in the 370th Regimental Combat Team, 92nd Infantry...
Radke Azvedo, Ingrid America
After surviving the bombing of Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin was bombed 363 times between 1940 and 1945] as a child...
Yamamoto, Albert American Boy in Prewar Japan
Albert Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: a Japanese American who went to Japan in 1940] was enrolled in school as a fifth...
Cohn, Marthe American Spirit Awards
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer says she wants to ask Marthe Cohn some specific questions about the American Spirit...
King, William Americans and Parisians
William King never experienced any discrimination while in the service. He never thought about it. He wrote home...
Hicks, Ora Pierce An Interesting Life
Ora Hicks has had an interesting life. If anything went wrong, she did not take it to heart. There is always another...
Nakagawa, Ittsei Ancestry to Atomic Illness
Ittsei Nakagawa's father's side of the family came over to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Japan] around 1904...
Cohn, Marthe Anti-Semitism
Growing up in Metz, France, Marthe Cohn experienced some anti-Semitism. When she was six, she and her siblings were at...
Ronson, Harold Anti-Semitism and Race Relations
Harold Ronson experienced one of the most anti-Semitic incidents in his life going into Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note:...
Hirschmann, Peter Anti-Semitism in Germany and the US
Peter Hirschmann and his Jewish family were an accepted part of the German population prior to Hitler's [Annotator's...
Schulman, Shirley Apart During War
Newlyweds, Shirley Sandy Schulman, and Hyman parted ways at a train station. Schulman headed home to Brooklyn [...
Thompson, Thomas Arabs, Germans, and Japanese
There were two things about a boat of the type [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat, or PT-Boat] that Thomas D....
Nussenbaum, Seymour Army Anti-Semitism
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] In headquarters [Annotator's Note: Headquarters...
Bass, Leon Army Enlistment
Leon Bass voluntarily entered the military. He was in a movie theater when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

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