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Irvine, Elizabeth "Elizabeth Lautzenheiser" The Beginning of the War
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the people in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines] were very...
Hamilton, Richard The Black March
On 6 February 1945, the prison guards marched Richard Henry Hamilton and the rest of the prisoners out of the camp [...
Radke Azvedo, Ingrid The Black Market
Ingrid Radke-Azvedo was a child in Berlin, Germany during the Berlin Blockade. [Annotator's Note: The Soviet Union...
Ream, John The Black Panther Party
John Ream’s wife traveled from place to place her whole life. He could pick between the police or the military for a...
Hoehn, Basil The Bulge and into Germany
Basil C. Hoehn and his unit [Annotator’s Note: with the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion] set up in the woods outside of...
Gile, Richard The Bulge and War’s End
Richard Edward Gile fought in the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
Dubay, Henry The Bulge and War’s End
Henry Dubay and his C-47 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-47 Skytrain cargo aircraft] squadron [Annotator’s Note: 34th...
Sapp, Walter The Bulge Begins
Walter Sapp's company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division]...
Evans, Donald The Bulge then Germany
Donald Evans stayed with his division [Annotator's Note: 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division] through the Bulge...
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...
Saloom, Kaliste The Counter Intelligence Corps and Reflections
Kaliste Saloom and his Counter Intelligence Corps, or CIC, detachment was assigned to Allied headquarters in Algiers...
Boeke, Robert The Different German Groups
German civilians were wonderful people to Robert Boeke [Annotator's Note: with the 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th...
Stern, Guy The End of the War
Guy Stern was present in April 1945 when the allies liberated the German army prison at Torgau [Annotator's Note:...
Riedl, Edward The Filipinos
Edward Riedl thought the people [Annotator's Note: he is referring to the people on Leyte, Philippines] seemed...
Billingsley, James The Filipinos
James Billingsley worked with Filipino forces. He was in the middle of it, and was pulled out. There was a Filipino...
Rooney, Andrew The French and The Germans
Andrew A. Rooney went into Belgium [Annotator's Note: as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military...
Rice, Rip The German Underground
Rip Rice remembers they were trying to get the Germans to give up. They were going to take a town on the night of 18...
Lents, Robert The Guards and the Guarded
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Lents if he and the other prisoners of war had nicknames for their...
Goldstein, Rosette The Hideaway and Her Father
Rosette Goldstein met her father at a farm after fleeing Paris. They adored each other. She was not afraid because he...
Angst, Lawrence The Hitler Youth and Encountering Various Camps
Lawrence Angst said that the Hitler Youth [Annotator's Note: youth organization of the Nazi Party] were radical and a...
Mayer, Philip The Invasion of Okinawa
Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...
Witaker, Richard "Dick" The Japanese
Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...
Lauderdale, Dell The Japanese
Dell Lauderdale went into the areas outside the prison while he was in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: While at Sugamo Prison...
Lafleur, Richard The Japanese People
Richard Lafleur [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty with 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division] got acquainted...
Nordstrom, Clyde The Japanese People
Clyde Nordstrom did a lot of sightseeing in Japan. He visited a Shinto temple and just roamed around. He thought the...
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...
Morgan, Fred The Jump into Normandy
Fred B. Morgan, Junior [Annotator's Note: a medic with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry...
Ram, Walter The Long March and Liberation
Walter Ram and the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] who could walk were marched out of Stalag XVII as the...
Jensen, Mervin The Long Trip Home
Mervin Jensen was ready for discharge. They were unloading a ship that had oxygen cylinders on it. They were used for...
Warne, Therese The MacArthur Family
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...
Gruen, Dieter The Manhattan Project
Dieter Gruen graduated from Northwestern [Annotator's Note: Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois] and was...
Compton, Bryan The March to Rome
Jumping out [Annotator's Note: breaking out of the Anzio, Italy beachhead] on 4 June 1944, Bryan Compton's division [...
Lewis, Claude The Mountain Division
Claude L. Lewis kissed the ground when he returned to the States [Annotator’s Note: United States]. He had enough...
Shenkle, George The Netherlands
George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...
Bayuk, Rose The Pacific and War's End
Backing up to the time when Rose Bayuk first arrived in London [Annotator's Note: London, England], she relates how the...
Baker, Sterling The Pacific and Discharge
Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...

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