Interactions with Allied troops

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Asbury, Richard The Four Musketeers
Richard Asbury does not know how he came up with the name "Queenie" [Annotator's Note: North American P-51B Mustang...
Asher, Adolph The French Front
Adolph Edward Asher went to France to fight at Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...
Albertson, Arthur The Front Lines
Arthur Albertson was drinking and laughing with the Russians [Annotator's Note: they met the Russians when they crossed...
Peto, George The Future
George Peto served with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World...
Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" The Glenn Miller Band and General Henri Giraud
Blanche Gangwere was sent to Passau, Germany where she was billeted in an old castle on a hill. The castle was...
McDermott, James The Great Escape Compound
James McDermott was being held in the British, North, compound at Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland. That is where The...
Wainwright, James The Green Project
James Eyre Wainwright [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in the 326th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd Bombardment Group...
Raquepau, John The Grumman Avenger
John "Jack" Raquepau and his group [Annotator's Note :Torpedo Squadron 51 (VT-51), Air Group 51, USS San Jacinto (CVL-...
Sherman, Joyce The Holocaust
Joyce Sherman was not aware of the Holocaust, but she knew about what was going on. She was in high school when she...
Callander, Sherwin The Invasions of Morocco, Salerno and Normandy
In the Atlantic, Sherwin Callander was on the USS Lyon (AP-71), a transport ship that brought troops and supplies to...
Wayne, William The Iwo Jima Flag Raisers
William Wayne says Bradley [Annotator's Note: US Navy Pharmacist's Mate 2nd Class John Henry Bradley, known as “Jack”...
Sullivan, George The Japanese Leave the Camp
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war held at the Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp in Sandakan,...
Wells, Kenneth The Japanese Soldier and Okinawans
When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...
Muller, Henry The Japanese Surrender
After liberating the Los Baños Japanese internment camp, Philippines, Henry Muller and the 11th Airborne Division went...
Morgan, Fred The Jump into Normandy
Fred B. Morgan, Junior [Annotator's Note: a medic with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry...
Lee, James The Korean War
James Lee could not fight in World War 2, but when the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27...
Dendy, Lloyd The Korean War and Parting Thoughts
Lloyd Dendy met the toughest guy ever in Korea. He had been hit in the cheek by shrapnel and lost a lot of his teeth....
Stewart, Roy The Last Days on Iwo Jima
Roy Stewart's unit [Annotator's Note: 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] got word that there would be a...
Tangradi, Richard The Last Mission
Richard Tangradi’s last mission was to Frankfurt [Annotator’s Note: Frankfurt, Germany]. They had to abort the mission...
Smith, Jacques The Leyte Campaign
Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...
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...
Kerner, John The Medic’s Red Cross Badge
John Kerner was assigned close to the front in a battalion aid station [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th...
Wayne, William The Men at Iwo Jima
William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...
Douglas, Walter The Merseburg Mission
Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...
Tso, Samuel The Navajo Code
[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...
Foster, Robert The Navy, Pearl Harbor, and the Army
Robert E. Foster entered the Navy in November 1934. He was drafted [Annotator's Note: into the Army] in 1942. Foster...
Shenkle, George The Netherlands
George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...
Reynolds, Harley The night of June 6th and morning of June 7th 1944
Harley Reynolds, through subsequent research, was able to find out what the German half track was doing there. The half...
Stevens, Phineas The Pacific and Captain Scruggs
[Annotator's Note: Phineas Stevens was ordered to join a Landing Ship Tank flotilla, LST Flotilla 7, from San Francisco...
Kirkpatrick, Otto The Pathfinders
Otto Kirkpatrick got orders on Easter Sunday 1943 to transfer to the 322nd Bomb Group [Annotator’s Note: 322nd...
Thompson, Thomas The Philippines and Filipinos
Thomas D. Thompson boarded his Patrol Craft in Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] in the Lingayen Gulf [...
Kuwayama, Yeiichi "Kelly" The pressures of being a combat medic
Kelly Kuwayama landed in either May or June 1944 in Italy. They worked their way up the boot of Italy. When they were...
Leaming, Jack The Prisoner Experience
Before the war, Jack Leaming had a Japanese friend in the second grade, whose parents sold Japanese clothing on the...
Schicker, Tom The Rifle Range
Thomas Francis Schicker's boot camp training was excellent. After four weeks, they went to Camp Matthews [Annotator's...
Roberts, George The Rose of York
George Roberts befriended a woman who was the widow of a British officer who had four daughters while stationed in...
Jaber, Anton The Saint-Lô Breakout
Anton Jaber was part of a force of three divisions, 3,000 planes, and 300 artillery units moving into combat. He could...

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