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Showers, Donald "Mac" Segment 1
Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...
Quintana, Ben Segment 1
Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...
Snapp, Helen Segment 1
Snapp was born in Washington D.C. She lived there for about two years and then moved to Colorado. She eventually moved...
Jackson, Donald Segment 1
Jackson was born in Covina, California in 1924. He was a senior in high school on 7 December 1941 when Pearl Harbor was...
Henderson, William Segment 1
Henderson begins the interview stating that he wouldn't be there if not for the actions of B-24 crewman.Henderson's...
Tenney, Lester Segment 1
Tenney joined the National Guard in November of 1940. He joined to get his year of service completed before the draft...
Bell, Bryan Segment 1
Bell was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 15th, 1918. Before the war, Bell had a business manufacturing...
Schmedemann, Keith Segment 1
Schmedemann was born in Junction City, Kansas where he grew up and attended high school. He went to Kansas State...
De Mers, William Segment 1
DeMers was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin on March 3rd, 1915. He had 6 brothers and 6 sisters. All 13 lived to be to...
Bishop, Charles Segment 1
Charles Bishop was born in New Haven, Connecticut in November of 1920. The depression years were sketchy. His mother...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 1
John Vessey goes by Jack. His father was John and his son is named John and his grandson is named Jack. They all...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 1
Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...
Doi, Michael Segment 1
Michael J. Doi was born in California. On 19 January 1942 Doi was inducted into the US Army at the age of 21. The army...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 1
Biddle was born in Daleville, Indiana on November 28th, 1923. Daleville had about nine hundred people. He lived there...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 1
Dupuy remembers times being hard during the Depression. They always had food to eat, but there were certain things that...
Diamond, Joseph Segment 1
Joseph Diamond served with the 104th Infantry Division, which is the Timberwolf Division. He was born in Camden, New...
Wahlen, George Segment 1
Wahlen was born in a farmhouse near Ogden, Utah. Soon after he was born his family moved to Ogden where they stayed...
Woods, Edward Segment 1
Woods and the interviewer discuss the format for the interview.Edward Thomas Woods was born in 1927 in Manhattan, New...
Spivey, Leonard Segment 1
Leonard Spivey was born on a farm five or six miles north of Artesia, New Mexico. At a very young age Spivey was on the...
Karr, Robert Segment 1
Karr grew up in West Virginia in a little town called Mannington. His father and his relatives worked in the oil fields...
Greer, Richard Segment 1
[Annotators note: Interview starts off in mid conversation about the format of the interview.] Richard Greer was born...
Noack, John Segment 1
John Noack lived in Port Arthur, Texas before the war. Once in a while a barnstormer would come through with a plane...
Baynham, James Segment 1
Baynham grew up during the Great Depression but doesn't recall life being too bad. After graduating from high school he...
Disanza, William Segment 1
William Disanza was born on 120th Street in Manhattan and grew up in the Bronx. In 1950 he got married and moved to New...
Milosevich, Risto Segment 1
Risto Milosevich grew up in East Los Angeles, California. During summer vacation he would repair concrete driveways to...
Thatcher, David "Dave" Segment 1
At 19 Thatcher finished high school and enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on December 3rd, 1940. Thatcher was sworn in...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 1
Vejtasa and the interviewer are getting acquainted and set out how the interview will be conducted. The interviewer...
Crain, Joe Segment 1
Crain was born in northern Louisiana. He grew up on a farm. During the depression everyone in his family had to work in...
Bollinger, Ardell Segment 1
Ardell Bollinger was born 3 November 1922 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Bollinger lived in Lock Haven for about 12 years...
Jones, David "Davey" Segment 1
Jones was born in Oregon. When he was 10 years old, 1 of his sisters contracted tuberculosis so his mother elected to...
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 1
Baum served with the 4th Armored Division during WWII. He was born in New York and grew up in the Bronx. His father was...
Spencer, David Segment 1
David Paul Spencer was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. It is a little town southwest of Pittsburgh. Spencer went to a...
Weinart, John Segment 1
John Weinart had a house robbery a few years prior to this interview and his weapons were stolen. He had brought back...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 1
Theodore Van Kirk, known as Dutch, was born in Pennsylvania. He grew up in a very small town and he described himself...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 1
Jimmie Kanaya was born in Clackamas, Oregon in 1920 and grew up working on a farm from dawn to dusk. He experienced the...
Rall, Gunther Segment 1
Rall was an Army cadet and after the war school, kriegschule, in Dresden he was promoted to a first lieutenant. He had...

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