Interactions with Allied troops

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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...
Wiebe, Ted The Sinking of the USS Lexington (CV-2)
Ted Wiebe said that the pilots taught all the "middle men" how to fly the TBDs [Annotator's Note: Douglas TBD...
Boeke, Robert The Stolen Jeep
Robert Boeke's friends Sergeant Tate [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] and Corporal Gross [Annotator's Note:...
Murray, Charles The Strain of Combat on Leadership
Charles Murray was with 25 second lieutenants in the back of a truck going across France. He was a first lieutenant by...
Bishop, Jacqueline The USO and Red Cross
Jacqueline Bishop was 15 or 16 years old when she became a USO girl [Annotator's Note: United Service Organizations]....
Lynch, James The USS Snook (SS-279)
James Paul Lynch went out to sea as officer of the deck the first time [Annotator's Note: on the USS Snook (SS-279) on...
Lynch, James The USS Snook (SS-279) to the USS Sea Dog (SS-401)
James Paul Lynch had a wonderful experience on the Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)]. They had fine officers...
Martin, Robert The USS Vulcan (AR-5)
Robert Martin was taught to march and thought it was stupid [Annotator's Note: in US Navy basic training]. They went to...
Luce, Dwain The War Ends
Dwain Luce did not have to wait long to go home. When the war was over, each country sent their finest Divisions to...
Reilly, Joseph The War Ends
Joseph Dean Reilly [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...
Andriano, Louis The War Ends
Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...
Jagers, Robert The War Ends
Robert Jagers' orders were to report to Columbia University [Annotator's Note: Columbia University in New York, New...
Schaller, Henry The War Ends
Henry Schaller's bomber [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 FLying Fortress heavy bomber] flew at 23,000 feet. It was 33...
Miller, Rudolph The War Ends
Rudolph C. Miller loved the Marines aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Fond du Lac (APA-166)]. They were very...
Sandoz, James The War Ends
James Sandoz was in Germany when the war ended. He does not recall how he heard, perhaps by an officer. They were moved...
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...
Doroff, Lorraine The War Ends
When the war ended, Lorraine Doroff [Annotator's Note: while serving in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...
Burrell, Joseph The War Ends
Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...
Alter, Joseph The War Ends
Joseph Alter does not remember how he heard that the war was over. He was uncomfortable because that evening they left...
Light, Carl The War Ends
Carl Light and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 61st Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored Division] captured...
Bridger, Harley The War Ends
Harley Bridger's original crew stayed together the entire war except for the bombardier. He was a young, Jewish boy...
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...
Scholl, Richard The War Ends or Does It?
Richard Scholl was sent back to the United States while his unit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 158th...
Muller, Henry The War Is Over
Henry Muller was the G-2 [Annotator’s Note: Military designation; G means general staff position; -2 stands for...
Cristiano, Nick The War Is Over
Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....
Gagel, Helen "Cosgrove" The War Winds Down
Helen Gagel was 20 years old when she was in the Philippines. She thinks the nurses get a bad name. Some of her nurses...
Kerner, John The Wars End
John Kerner crossed the Elbe River where his unit [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th Infantry Division]...
Sutcliffe, Albert The West Loch Disaster
Albert G. Sutcliffe was sent to Pearl Harbor's [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] in preparation for going to the...
Kelley, Archie The West Virginia Torpedoed
Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...
Ernest, Malcolm The Will to Live
[Annotator's Note: Malcolm Ernest was a prisoner of war at Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria; present day China.] Ernest...
Doolan, Robert The YB-40 and England
The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...
Rubin, Mark Theresienstadt
After being taken to Gestapo headquarters, Mark Rubin and his family were sent to the Sered transient camp [Annotator's...
Tatum, John Third Wave on Guadalcanal
John Wesley Tatum was in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division when they landed on...
Kaiser, Raymond Thoughts About the War
The war did not change Raymond Kaiser a bit. He felt like he was doing his job. He was in [Annotator's Note: in the...
Davis, Jack Thoughts on Combat
Jack Davis' first combat was "scary as hell". He would be walking along the hedgerows [Annotator's Note: man-made...

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