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Robert E. Foster went on maneuvers [Annotator's Note: with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 376th Infantry Regiment, 94th...
Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla boarded a converted Italian luxury liner, the Saturnia [Annotator's Note: MS Saturnia], for...
In 1944, Togue Uchida and 700 others were sent to Naples [Annotator's Note: Naples, Italy] where he joined the 100th...
Matthew A. Reluga's older brother Charles was an MP [Annotator's Note: military police]. Once Reluga got get a break in...
Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade went to Norfolk, Virginia, where he picked up his ship. The ship held four LCMs [Annotator's...
After boot camp, Richard Nummer returned home for only one day before he returned to San Diego. Some trainees went AWOL...
Bruno S. Rinas embarked from San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. He visited Alcatraz [...
In September 1943, Harold Ashton's squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 21 (VP-21)] was sent to England. On the...
Edward Denzler relates some amusing incidents that occurred while he was training the cavalry troopers, a job he...
Ivan van der Pool was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when he received his orders to go overseas. From there, he boarded the...
At Fort Huachuca [Annotator's Note: in Cochise County, Arizona], Robert Madison was appointed S-2, intelligence officer...
When James Bollich was sent to Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines], he was still a mechanic, but he...
While he was training with his ten man crew in Florida, Jesse Wofford's mother visited him and treated the whole crew...
Robert Gaylord Furrow went to England, France, Belgium, and Germany. He trained for a year before the invasion [...
After completing basic training, Henry Baul was allowed to return home for leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized...
Robert W. "Doby" Gibson left Camp Myles Standish in Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts] on the troop ship...
In January [Annotator's Note: January 1943], Myron L. Guisewhite was in preflight training. By Christmas [Annotator's...
In preparing for deployment overseas, Richard Frothingham remembers that the 656th Field Artillery [Annotator's Note:...
James Shelton Scales trained recruits until the middle of 1943, when he received orders to report to Camp Pendleton,...
Wesley John Dochick did not get liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] while his...
Wayne Pierce was the Supply and Transportation Officer when his Battalion left Fort Bragg. The regiment travelled by...
After he completed his training, Paul Rothenheber was assigned to the USS Monticello (APA-61), a troop transport ship....
Donald F. Goyette boarded the SS John Land [Annotator's Note: USS John Land (AP-167)], a makeshift troop ship, that did...
In February or March 1943, Myers Bernard Rosenbloom went to Camp Pendleton[Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...
After Pearl Harbor, Donald Witmer's next destination was Eniwetok Atoll. When they arrived, there were no Japanese...
Frank Hartzell and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion, 11th Armored Division]...
When he finished Officer Candidate School, William Blackwood was sent to the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New...
Joseph Blouin went to basic training at the largest wooden hotel in the country [Annotator's Note: Belleview-Biltmore...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a woman off camera interjects with comments.] James Ramsey Golden was assigned...
George Hardy went on leave after graduation [Annotator's Note: from aviation cadet training at Tuskegee Army Air Field...
Fred Gordon and the whole 9th Armored Division was shipped overseas on the Queen Mary to Fort Larkin, England. They had...
With the 787th Bombardment Squadron, 466th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force, Fred A. Stecher was sent overseas to...
After completing his training, Mort Walker volunteered for overseas duty because he had heard that once the war was...
Revis Haslett initially wanted to join the Marines but went into the Army Air Forces instead. He was working with a...
Prior to being sent overseas, Robert Lewis Beilman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 242nd infantry...
After completing his Merchant Marine training, William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. was sent to Miami, Florida. He then...

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