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Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Joining the Red Cross and Going Overseas
Blanche Gangwere was 26 and over the minimum age of 24 when she joined the Red Cross [Annotator's Note: American Red...
Reeder, John Joining the Royal Canadian Air Force
Colonel John Acree Reeder was born in January 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Boeing School of...
Sadler, Richard Joining the Royal Marines
In May 1943, Burt Richard Sadler would turn 18 years old. He did not want to join the Army because he saw so many drunk...
Barnett, Robert Joining the Scouts and Raiders
Robert Barnett was born in November 1926 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] and has lived there all of...
Ashford, Willard Joining the Sea Bees
Willard Ashford was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in May 1928. His family was mostly poverty-ridden due to the Great...
Campbell, John Joining the Service
John Edward Campbell was born in August 1920 in Porterville, California. His mother died in 1930 when he was ten years...
Van Eaton, Jack Joining the Service
[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...
Bornstein, Jack Joining the Service
Jack Bornstein was born in Brooklyn [Annotator’s Note: Brooklyn, New York City, New York] in January 1921. He grew up...
Campbell, John Joining the US Merchant Marine
John Campbell was mostly selling newspapers while in high school. He was making as much as a lot of men who were...
Broll, Walter Joining the US Merchant Marine
Walter Broll passed through the station [Annotator's Note: the Merchant Marine training station at Sheepshead Bay in...
Leaming, Jack Joining the USS Enterprise (CV-6)
Jack Leaming was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1919. When he was three months old, his mother moved to Wildwood...
Cawley, David J. Joining the USS Enterprise (CV-6)
[Annotator's Note: David Cawley is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip. Cawley joined the Navy...
Cummings, John Joining the USS Gar (SS-206)
Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was stationed near the tower for dive submarines [Annotator's Note: in Pearl Harbor,...
Guderian, Emmett Joining the USS Independence (CVL-22)
Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...
Carmody, Martin "Red" Joining the USS Intrepid (CV-11)
After returning to the USS Enterprise (CV-6), they [Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody and his rear seat gunner John...
Kuhn, Arthur Joining the V-12 Program
Arthur Kuhn was born in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and grew up in Hammond, Indiana. He grew up with one brother. His...
Heany, Mary Joining the WACs
Mary T. Heany applied for and got the job. [Annotator’s Note: She worked in the wing shop at Boeing] She wore a...
Doroff, Lorraine Joining the WACS
Lorraine Doroff signed up for the Women Auxiliary Army [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Auxiliary Army Corps or WAAC;...
Smith, Thomas Joining the War to Saipan
When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...
Morgan, Dorothy "Dorothy Wuestner" Joining the WAVES
Dorothy Wuestner Morgan joined the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United...
Davis, Romay Joining the Women's Army Corps
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis did not know there was anything different than segregation. She had everything she needed...
Witmeyer, John "J.J." Joining Up and Military Training
John Witmeyer went to enlist in the United States military the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 8...
Peto, George Joining Up and Shipping Out
George Peto was born in Akron, Ohio in 1922. He grew up in the Portage Lakes area near Akron on an old farm during the...
Moret, Vernon Journey to Espiritu Santo
Vernon Henry Moret boarded a plane on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands] to rejoin his unit [...
Clark, Earl Journey to Joining the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment
For Earl Ervin Clark to be selected for the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, he had to submit three letters of...
Roed, Harold Jump School
Harold Roed tried to enlist in the Air Corps [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Corps] before his 18th birthday, passing...
Langrehr, Henry Jump School to England
Henry Langrehr had heard about the paratroopers. When he went to join, he told them that is what he wanted. At that...
Dillon, Gerard Jump School to Normandy
Everybody was scared the first time, and every time they jumped out of an airplane. Gerard Dillon says that if you were...
Morgan, Fred Jump School to North Africa
Fred B. Morgan Junior was one of the original members of the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment. He went through jump...
Muller, Henry Jump School to the Pacific
Henry Muller did a great deal of physical training to become a paratrooper. He says the US Army has been jogging ever...
Dahlberg, Melvin Jump School, Maneuvers, Overseas Deployment and WACS
Melvin Dahlberg went to paratrooper school in Georgia. It was very difficult training, running five to ten miles every...
Billingsley, James Jump Training to Luzon
James Billingsley was at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia] in an area called The Frying Pan. The...
Lesniewski, Joseph Jumping Into Normandy
[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski joined Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne...
Graham, Chester "Chet" Jumping into the French Countryside
Chet Graham [Annotator's Note: Chester Earl Graham] was in Wollaton Park near Nottingham, England where the townspeople...
Wise, Curtis Jungle Training in Hawaii
After basic training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Curtis Winfred Wise went to Fort Rucker, Alabama to a new company...
Hirabayashi, Grant Jungle Training in India
Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was very confused after visiting his family in an internment camp but returned to Fort Snelling...

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