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Beard, Oral Training to Overseas Deployment
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...
Scully, William Training to Overseas Deployment
William Scully was shipped to Fort McClellan in Alabama for training. He was taught infantry work such as rifles and...
Marshall, James Training to Saipan
After graduating from radio school, James "Jim" Marshall was sent to Salina, Kansas [Annotator's Note: Smoky Hill Army...
Dabney, William G. Training with Barrage Balloons
William Dabney notes that there was no mingling between white soldiers and black soldiers. When they got overseas they...
Damiano, George Training with Friends
George A. Damiano graduated from high school shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...
Armstrong, Henry Training with Mules
Henry Armstrong trained in artillery. He was six feet two inches tall. When they boarded the train after basic training...
Micheel, Vernon L. Training with New Squadrons
Vernon Micheel sailed on a freighter manned by a crew from Ceylon [Annotator's Note: now Sri Lanka, November 1942]. He...
Lansford, William Training with the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion
William Lansford and the other Marine Raider recruits were taken to Jacques Farm where they began their training. The...
Singlaub, John Training with the OSS and SOE
John Singlaub trained with the OSS following his completion of paratrooper and demolition training at Fort Benning,...
DeForest, Harold Training, Citizenship and Overseas Deployment
From Fort Custer, Harold DeForest was sent to Camp Wheeler, Georgia for 13 weeks of basic training. They were on the...
Amore, Frederick Training, Deployment and Assignment
Sent to Keesler Field in Biloxi, Mississippi, Frederick Amore spent two months in basic training before volunteering to...
Hogan, Moses Training, Deployment and the Attack on Pearl Harbor
Moses Hogan's basic training was in Norfolk, Virginia, and he shipped out from San Diego, California. He was assigned...
Fox, Charles Training, Deployment, and More Training
Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox went through boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], and was...
Samrow, Joseph Training, Deployment, and Return Home
Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow [Annotator's Note: enlisted in the US Navy in 1944, trained as a torpedo bomber gunner and...
Shown, Donald Training, Indianapolis and Pearl Harbor
Donald Herbert Shown joined the Navy and completed boot camp in San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] in...
Boyer, Robert Training, Unit Assignment, and Overseas Deployment
Basic training for Robert Boyer was regimented, leaving little to chance. For 17 weeks he worked with the 57mm anti-...
Dubay, Henry Transfer to England
After five weeks in Casablanca [Annotators Note: Casablanca, Morocco], Henry Dubay and his C-47 [Annotator's Note:...
Grant, Olen "Reb" Transfer to Wendover Field
One day Olen Grant was working on an airplane when a private notified him that someone was waiting to see him in the...
Hatch, Norman Transferred to the 5th Division
Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] moved up to the next island because there...
Gutman, Jack Transferring to the Pacific and the Battle of Okinawa
Once Utah Beach was secured, Jack Gutman returned to England with the evacuees, and wound up in the officers' ward. His...
Powers, Robert Traveling to Okinawa
Before going to Guam, Robert Powers and the four Marine Raider battalions were put into one regular unit, the 4th...
Friedenberg, Bernard Treating the Wounded on D-Day
Bernard Friedenberg found the D-Day Invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6...
Reynolds, Florence G. Treatment of WASPs
Florence Reynolds finished training on 6 June 1944. Afterwards, she was stationed in California. She was allowed to...
Morgan, Fred Tremendous Men and Leadership
Fred B. Morgan, Junior [Annotator's Note: a medic with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry...
Castaing, Albert Trip Overseas
[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling in the background throughout this segment.] Albert Castaing and his crew...
Jaccarino, Richard Tropical Diseases and Heading to Okinawa
After one patrol during which he was carrying a heavy BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle], Richard...
Golemi, Frank Trouble in Marrakesh
Frank Golemi was sent to the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center [Annotator's Note: Now Lackland Air Force Base, a part...
Payne, Robert Trouble with Horses
Robert Payne was in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1944 in flight training. It was a small town. What they were doing was well...
Addison, Robert Tulagi and Guadalcanal
[Annotator's Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps as a mortar man in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]...
Hirabayashi, Grant Tule Lake Internment Camp
[Annotator's Note: Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was selected to attend the Military Intelligence Service Language School at...
Bleuler, Jack Tulsa Boy to Army Air Corps
[Annotator’s Notes: There is a lot of background noise throughout this segment.] Jack H. Bleuler was born in 1923 and...
Moret, Calvin Tuskegee Airmen Training
Calvin Moret did not keep track of his comrades in Europe during his training. Each class was a standalone class. The...
Jefferson, Alexander Tuskegee Army Air Field and Racism
Alexander Jefferson volunteered for service in order to avoid the draft. If he had been drafted he would have been a...
Fisher, Clayton Two Emergency Landings
Before that, while instructing in SB2As [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer light scout bomber], Clayton Fisher...
Zarger, Edward Two Ex-Convicts
Edward Zarger was in basic training with two men who had been in prison for life. They were told if they completed...
Kelso, Robert Two Tours in Vietnam
Robert Kelso went to Vietnam as an advisor but was called to Saigon to run the Armed Forces Radio when it was learned...

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