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Carlson, Harry Retirement from NASA
While at NASA [Annotator's Note: National Aeronautics and Space Administration], Harry Carlson had an opportunity to go...
Rubin, Mark Return to Europe
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks if going back to his home town causes him stress.] Mark Rubin sums up his...
Kopp, Alois Returning Home
Alois Kopp and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] left Saigon on a boozy flight to Calcutta. The POWs...
Inoshita, Masaji Returning Home and Postwar Life
Masaji Inoshita asked for early retirement [Annotator's Note: early release from the Army]. He was told that he was...
Halloran, Walter Returning Home and Retirement
Walter Halloran flew back to the United States after his tour in Vietnam. It was exciting to return to his family. It...
Rupp, William Returning to Civilian Life and Postwar Career
William Rupp used the G.I. Bill to attend Tulane University. He used the benefits to aid him in business and also to...
Gross, Eva Reunion and Return Home
Eva Gross was reunited with her very ill mother in Bergen-Belsen [Annotator's Note: after the British liberated the...
Somogyi, Peter Reunions with Auschwitz Twins
Peter Somogyi was contacted by Eva Kor and met other twins in the United States. [Annotator's Note: Dr. Josef Mengele...
Christiansen, Ejnar Running the Caribbean
Ejnar Christiansen spent the summer of 1940 in Jacksonville, Florida as a cadet on the Danish Merchant Marine training...
Brukman, Jack Saipan
Jack Brukman found everything to be out of whack for them when they arrived at their destination [Annotator's Note: the...
East, Clyde Second Dog Fight Victory
Clyde East shot down his second German fighter just prior to the Battle of the Bulge near Frankfurt, Germany. He was on...
Hammond, Robert Segregated Training and Assignment to Montford Point
Robert Hammond was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois in the dead of winter for boot camp. He was prepared for the cold, but...
DuBose, John Serving aboard the Tanker SS Frenchtown
John DuBose signed on the SS Frenchtown as a messman. The ship was a T-2 tanker that was welded during construction and...
Tarrant, Eugene Settling Differences and Anything Can Happen
When asked about a general message about his service and war, Eugene Tarrant references Civil War General Sherman's [...
Croft, Katherine Sirens, Rationing and Chinese Community
As a young child during the war, Katherine Croft distinctly remember the sirens that would go off. She knew that her...
Aigner, Leslie Slave Laborer and Survivor
Leslie Aigner was working on a six foot thick concrete roof when a man fell in the steel reinforcement structure while...
Stern, Guy SS Tattoos and Postwar Return to Europe
Guy Stern and his fellow intelligence staff were assigned the dismissing of prisoners that seemed to be harmless and...
Popham, Donald Staying Abreast of Wartime Events
Before he got married, Donald Popham tried to enlist, but failed the physical because of his eyesight. His rating was...
Honea, Chafer Strafed by German Fighter Planes
Chafer Honea landed in Naples, Italy at night. After leaving their ship, they boarded 40 and eight train cars [...
Spencer, John The Attack on Pearl Harbor and the Capsizing of the USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
He had arrived in Pearl Harbor, but John Curtis Spencer was not aboard his ship when the Japanese attacked on 7...
Bradley, Aubrey The Fate of Bradley’s Crew
Russian aircraft were strafing the area where Aubrey Bradley was being held, and he was given coffee and stale bread...
Burke, Dracos The SAC Job and the Cold War
As the chief legal officer of the Strategic Air Command, Dracos Burke was responsible for the legal affairs at 62 bases...
Rubin, Mark Theresienstadt
After being taken to Gestapo headquarters, Mark Rubin and his family were sent to the Sered transient camp [Annotator's...
Kaufman, Luna To Israel and then America
Luna Kaufman and the Jews of Poland were allowed to immigrate to newly created Israel in 1950 if they gave up their...
Christiansen, Ejnar United Fruit Company
Ejnar Christiansen started working for the United Fruit Company [Annotator's Note: now Chiquita Brands International]...
Dahlberg, Melvin Various Thoughts on War
Melvin Dahlberg was in the battle for Hill 1098 [Annotator's Note: part of Maritime Alps in Southern France]. They were...
Staymates, Arthur War's End and Occupation Duty
As the war was coming to an end, Arthur Staymates and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 26th...
Kibort, Reva Warsaw Ghetto
Reva Kibort and her family were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto surrounded by its ten foot high walls. The Jews lost...
Shoemaker, James War’s End
James Shoemaker's father returned home about nine months before the end of World War 2. He brought home McCampbell [...
Praetorius, Leo War’s End and Postwar Career
Leo Praetorius was leaving for a trip back to New Orleans when he learned that Japan had surrendered. He had enough...
Stern, Guy What the War Means
Guy Stern served out of the conviction that the cancer of Nazism must be eliminated. His life was change by accident....
Keller, Luba Where Was God
Luba Keller was 11 years old when some Nazis abducted her in her hometown of Szydłowiec, Poland. They took her and two...
Lesser, Benjamin Working at a Labor Camp and Being Tortured
Benjamin Lesser was taken from Auschwitz to a rock quarry labor camp. The work was backbreaking. It involved breaking...
White, Alexander Working for Survival
Going east to Auschwitz, Treblinka, Sobibor, Maidanek, or Belzec, Alexander White said, meant going to the gas chambers...

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