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Perrett, Marvin Segment 3
After going over the side, the boats would then form up waves of ten or twelve boats which rode around in circles until...
Hopkins, Lewis Segment 3
They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....
Keema, John Segment 3
After completing bombardier training and being commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, John Keema and his classmates were sent...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 3
Earnest told the man at the base that he was ordered to Torpedo Squadron 8. He was to report to them in 3 days. Three...
Williams, Hershel "Woody" Segment 3
From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...
Stegmeier, James L. Segment 3
Stegmeier enlisted because everybody was doing it. There was a draft going on and if you didn't enlist you would be...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 4
Lyle Bouck did not meet many civilians in Belgium. Someone higher up had gone through the towns and villages and...
Finkbeiner, Theodore Segment 4
Sicily was an easier operation than Italy. Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd...
Phillips, Henry Segment 4
[Annotators Note: Henry Phillips served as an officer in Company M, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry...
Ford, Richard Segment 4
Richard Ford left Bampton and went through Tidworth, England. They were there in the winter of 1942 to 1943. They were...
Jackson, Donald Segment 4
In Africa they were out in the desert were the French Foreign Legion was training and were headquartered. They worked...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 4
Freddie Ohr was given a depth perception test. The depth perception test was kind of tricky. It entailed having Ohr...
Disanza, William Segment 4
William Disanza had trains and tanks on the deck of his ship. The train cars were too big to fit underneath the deck....
Jones, David "Davey" Segment 4
In Sacramento Jones checked Doolittle out. Doolittle had selected as his crew, the crew of one of the pilots who had...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 4
[Annotators Note: Charles Scheffel served in the army as an infantry officer. He was sent to England with five other...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 4
Baptiste had a janitorial service. One of his clients was a doctor who stayed on Corregidor [Annotator's Note:...
Jefferson, Alexander Segment 4
Alexander Jefferson came in the middle of the Tuskegee program. The first program was March 1942 and the last class was...
Deen, Braswell Segment 4
They got on three different ships to haul the First Marine Division on August 25th [Annotator’s Note: 1944]. They...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 4
Waldron was the commanding officer of Torpedo Squadron 8. He wanted things done his way and he wanted them done right....
Cole, Richard Segment 4
As a child in Dayton, Ohio Richard Cole was only a half hour bike ride from McCook Army Airfield where he would go to...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 4
During World War II it was the Japanese that occupied the Aleutian Islands, part of the United States. The attitude was...
Ford, Richard Segment 5
Richard Ford was at the assault training center near Bristol for a few months. There was a boys' school near them....
Tyler, Kermit Segment 5
On 1 September 1942 Tyler was transferred to the 44th [Annotator's Note: 44th Fighter Squadron] at Bellows Field as...
Snapp, Helen Segment 5
The only benefits they were eligible for was housing and medical benefits. The WASP [Women’s Airforce Service Program]...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 5
Freddie Ohr flew in a P-64 and a P-35. He cannot find the P-64 in modern books about fighters. Both were forerunners to...
Holloman, William Segment 5
A friend of Holloman’s in a MATS [Annotator's Note: Military Air Transport Service] unit needed an operations officer....
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 5
While the Laffey was undergoing training on Chesapeake Bay some of the gunners were sent to Dam Neck, Virginia for...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 5
The French Foreign Legion decided to fight with the Allies. Charles Scheffel stayed in the tunnel in Algiers that night...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 5
Theodore Van Kirk remembers what he was told about the bomb. All they knew was they had to get away from the area as...
Rall, Gunther Segment 5
After losing his thumb Rall was out of combat for a while because his wound was infected.He went back to his wing early...
Perrett, Marvin Segment 5
They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS Bayfield, near Okinawa] for about twelve days...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 5
Earnest did get his eight landings in. The next time he was going to be making a landing he was on the Saratoga [...
Gardner, Clinton Segment 6
Clinton Gardner witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and noted there were close to 55,000 to 56,000 deaths in the...
Ferrier, Harry Segment 6
Ferrier's airplane was taken back to Pearl Harbor after the battle. The engineers do all sorts of things to the plane,...
Snapp, Helen Segment 6
Snapp met some of the women in the First Air Force class, some were astronauts. They had a tough time as well. Snapp's...
Schmedemann, Keith Segment 6
Schmedemann's career was in his hands. He wanted to go to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth,...

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