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DeSalvo, Vincent From Gulfport to Kanchipuram
Vincent DeSalvo was drafted into the US Army Air Force. He was at Gulfport Field in Gulfport, Mississippi for a while...
Wicklund, John From Leyte to Samar
As first scout, John Wicklund carried a Thompson submachine gun [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber Thompson submachine gun...
Hauberg, Harold From Leyte to the War's End
Harold Hauberg [Annotator's Note: with Company D, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division]...
Brooks, Curtis From Manila to San Francisco
Curtis Brooks was aboard a transport aircraft after being liberated from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila,...
Saik, Ogden From New Guinea to Leyte
On landing in Hollandia New Guinea, Ogden Saik was impressed by the dominance of the American Navy. There were ships...
Gatlin, Carl From North Africa to Sicily
[Annotator's Note: An off-camera male interjects throughout this clip.] Carl Robert Gatlin and his regiment [Annotator'...
Inoshita, Masaji From Okinawa to Japan
When Masaji Inoshita got to the ceremony [Annotator's Note: a Japanese surrender ceremony in China] he found out that...
Mabarac, Raymond From One Theater to Another
After arriving in the Ruhr Valley, they [Annotator's Note: Raymond Mabarac and his fellow soldiers in Company H, 2nd...
Rooney, Andrew From Paris to China
Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military newspaper] entered...
Nordstrom, Clyde From Prison Guard to Plumber
[Annotator's Note: Clyde Nordstrom was in Japan on occupation duty and was a guard for the emperor's summer palace.]...
Camacho, Arturo From Prisoner to Free Man
Arturo Camacho remembers going down to the docks, and coming away with a canteen full of brown sugar that had been...
Gatlin, Carl From Rome to France
[Annotator's Note: An off-camera male interjects throughout this clip.] Carl Robert Gatlin and his regiment [Annotator'...
Knobler, Paula From Slave Labor to Liberation
Paula Knobler was lucky that she worked at a camp not in the German territory [Annotator's Note: the camp was in...
Mills, George From Soldier to Prisoner in Europe
After liberating Paris France, George F. Mills [Annotator's Note: with the Company E, 2nd Battalion, 109th infantry...
Jones, Johnnie From South Carolina to Omaha Beach
Johnnie A. Jones Senior was made a warrant officer [Annotator's Note: officers above non-commissioned officers,...
Werner, Jack From Switzerland to France to America
[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner walked out of Austria in August 1938 and made it by train to Geneva, Switzerland.]...
Addison, Arnold "A.C." From Tarawa to Saipan
Arnold Addison saw combat on Tarawa, Saipan and Okinawa. His first encounter with the Japanese on Tarawa brought to his...
Beeghly, Donald From the Bulge to the Remagen Bridge
When Donald Beeghly’s unit [Annotator's Note: the 142nd Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (mobile)] arrived in...
Hadjinian, Samuel From the Philippines to Japan
Samuel Hadjinian was sent to Manila, the Philippines to join the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion after being drafted...
Rosendahl, Robert From the Philippines to Manchuria
Robert Rosendahl got out of Camp O'Donnell and went on a detail north of a town called Cabanatuan where he was put to...
Cole, John From the Philippines to Okinawa
After Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] was secured [Annotator's Note: on 14 January 1945], John H. Cole...
Tizzard, Thomas Furlough in Australia
When assigned to the USS Helena (CL-50) in March 1942, Thomas Tizzard was given leave in Sydney, Australia for R...
Fernandez, Milton Galapagos Islands
Milton Fernandez was sailed to the Galapagos Islands, near Ecuador. The company was stationed in boxes around the...
Kerner, John Gardelegen, Germany
After the Bulge [Annotator’s Note: Battle of the Bulge or Ardennes Counteroffensive, 16 December 1944 to 25 January...
Steinfeld, Manfred General Gavin and Occupation Duty
Manfred Steinfeld was a German Jew [Annotator's Note: who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938], but...
Redmond, Leroy General George Patton
Leroy Redmond was part of the invasion of southern France. It was unscathed as the war had been in the north for a long...
Dillon, Gerard German 88s and Patrol
Gerard Dillon was in Vierville [Annotator's Note: Vierville-sur-Mer, France] when he got his first introduction to the...
Singlaub, John German Air Raids
Prior to the battle near Oradour-sur-Glane, John Singlaub experienced a German Heinkel 111 bomber attack. The aircraft...
Evans, Donald German Care to American Hospital
A German medic came in who spoke English to Donald Evans [Annotator's Note: after being wounded and captured when his...
Seltzer, Arthur German Concentration Camps
Arthur Seltzer reached Munich, Germany. The troops could tell the war was coming to an end. That was the location of...
Chandler, Howard German Invasion of Poland and Ghetto Life
Howard Chandler went to visit his relatives about 40 kilometers away after the 1939 school year ended. [Annotator's...
Goodkin, Vera German Occupation
In March 1939, Vera Goodkin [Annotator's Note: née Herman] witnessed German troops entering her town in Czechoslovakia...
Riggsby, Norman German Occupation and Nuremburg
Norman Riggsby worked as an MP [Annotator’s Note: military policeman] and as a judge. When they not on motorcycle...
Somogyi, Peter German Oppression
Peter Somogyi saw his father taken away within a week of 19 March 1944 [Annotator's Note: the day Germany occupied...
Deiglmayr, Erna German Suspicions
There were no SS [Annotator's Note: Schutzstaffel; German paramilitary organization] in the office where Erna Deiglmayr...
Woolf, Basil German Vengeance Weapons
Basil Woolf experienced the buzz bomb [Annotator's Note: German V-1 rocket bomb] attacks perpetrated by Germany on...

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