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Woods, Edward Segment 1
Woods and the interviewer discuss the format for the interview.Edward Thomas Woods was born in 1927 in Manhattan, New...
McNeil, Esther Segment 1
Esther McNeil grew up on a farm in western Pennsylvania. She was the sixth of eight children.After going into nursing...
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...
Bollinger, Ardell Segment 1
Ardell Bollinger was born 3 November 1922 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. Bollinger lived in Lock Haven for about 12 years...
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...
Cokinos, Michael Segment 1
Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...
McClellan, James Segment 1
James McClellan served in the 755th Field Artillery Battalion, 15th Army.He was born in West Virginia. His father...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 1
Galloway was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1923. Galloway was very fortunate during the Great Depression. His father had a...
Wicker, Benjamin Segment 1
Wicker was born in Scotlandville, Louisiana in 1923. He had a good life growing up, his father worked for the railroad...
Candelaria, Richard Segment 1
Richard Candelaria was born in El Paso, Texas. He served in the US Army Air Corps and the Air Force. Candelaria's...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 1
Hannas family was living in Texas when he joined the Army in July 1938 in Lubbock. He took his basic training at Ft....
McKee, Ralph Segment 1
McKee was born on September 19, 1921 in Southern Oklahoma. As was the case in most births in those days, he was born on...
Starnes, James Segment 1
Starnes grew up in Decatur, Georgia. His father was a travelling salesman. By the time he started school he was living...
Wiley, Delmar Segment 1
Wiley grew up during the Great Depression and he joined the Navy in 1940 just shortly after he graduated from high...
Johnson, Oscar Segment 1
Oscar Johnson was born in November 1925 in Pompano Beach, Florida. He had two brothers and a sister. His parents were...
Zager, Raymond Segment 1
Raymond Zager was born in December 1924 in Los Angeles, California. His father was out of work for a while but was able...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 1
Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...
Leisey, Alvin Segment 1
Leisey was born in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania May 10th, 1923. He moved to Honey Brook, Pennsylvania where he ended up...
Stegmeier, James L. Segment 1
Stegmeier was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1922. At the time of the interview he is 85 years old. He attended Grandview...
Gross, Clayton Segment 1
Clayton Kelly Gross was born in Walla Walla, Washington, a town so pretty they named it twice. Gross remarks it is...
Billow, Harold Segment 1
Billow was born in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up during the depression was rough, they did not have much. His...
Ford, Richard Segment 13
Richard Ford had 180 men in his company with six officers in his LCI [Annotators Note: Landing Craft Infantry] on D Day...
Malarkey, Donald Segment 2
The men learned to pack parachutes and jump from a tower. They had to pack the first 10 parachutes they would use at...
Finkbeiner, Theodore Segment 2
Theodore Finkbeiner shipped out of Cape Cod aboard the USS George Washington [Annotators Note: SS George Washington] in...
Luckadoo, John Segment 2
John Luckadoo and the other cadets were segregated in advanced flight training between single engine and twin engine....
Shoens, Robert Segment 2
The Army Air Corps knew that they needed to get the best pilots. Robert Shoens took his training in January of February...
Ford, Richard Segment 2
Richard Ford was in Panama City when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was in a bar when he found out. Panamanian police...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 2
Tyler took primary and basic training at Randolph Field then advanced training at Kelley Field [Annotator's Note: San...
Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 2
The next morning, possibly around 3 am, Baldwin and the rest of Cannon Company were told to get ready to go ashore. To...
Duchossois, Richard Segment 2
Richard Duchossois knew his unit was going to be a tank destroyer unit. None of the men in the battalion had ever even...
LaPorta, Edward Segment 2
Edward LaPorta was a member of the 1st Armored Division. The first tanks they had overseas were riveted together. They...
Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 2
Rankin left McChord Field on 14 July 1942 and arrived in Santa Ana, California in 15 July 1942 for preflight training....
Gravois, Francois "F.D." Segment 2
Gravois had had plenty of amphibious landing training. He also had a lot of combat training in boot camp. He did a lot...
Ichikawa, Grant Segment 2
Grant Ichikawa was first taken to an assembly center located on a horse racing track near Turlock, California. His...

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