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Fred Amram rFred Amram remembers being on an ocean liner when they left Belgium. The trip was eventful for him. The...
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts at tape break and the conversation is mid-sentence about Frank Purvis' new baby...
Vincent Losada woke up in the hospital and even though he was wounded, he considered himself lucky. He was put in a...
Clifton Trahan was hospitalized in Africa after being burned in a submarine attack while serving aboard the merchant...
John Bradley [Annotator's Note: an internee in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp, University...
Keith Kiefer saw that his orders said "Enewetak Atoll Radiological Cleanup". He was concerned but told he would get no...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Carrel Reavis why he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, as a...
Adolph Edward Asher was in training as a soldier when he heard about Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...
Philip Curran and his family talked about the impending war developments all the time. His grandfather was an avid...
James Marks, also known as The Chaplain, or Father Marks, was born in Davenport, Iowa. He had wonderful parents who...
Audrey Maduell found it sad to be at the train station where the families were watching their loved ones going off to...
[Annotator's Note: Henry Armstrong served in the Army on a forward observer team in Battery B, 607th Field Artillery...
Marthe Cohn and her family were living in the center of the Poitiers, France in a rented house after they left Metz,...
Constance Negrotto and her friend Dorothy Toups worked at a hospital after her shift at the PBY plant [Annotator’s Note...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore about a Medal of Honor recipient he knew.] Henry Erwin [...
Lorraine Achee feels that the war helped the country out of the Great Depression. People were working in factories and...
Lorainne McCaslin was about 15 years old and lying on the sofa in the family living room when she intercepted the...
Coleen Landry's brother Reed was married right after getting home from the war in the Pacific. He and his fiance had...
Lorraine Achee could not believe the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and she did not really understand it. They had...
Carolyn Bridgforth met her husband at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] when he...
Part of Martha Cohn's family successfully crossed from occupied France into unoccupied France from Saint-Secondin,...
Helen Kushnir is just beginning to realize that it mattered [Annotator's Note: being a woman working in a factory for...
Arthur Staymates had nearly daily conversations with Göring [Annotator's Note: German Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring...
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: an American child living in the Philippines during World War 2] and her...
After he graduated from school in 1941, Frank M. Heuer Sr. went to work for Higgins Industries [Annotator’s Note: in...
Lucy Elliot knew of the area off Gentilly Road where Higgins [Annotator's Note: Andrew Jackson Higgins, owner of...
Hewitt Brian Gomez received his commission and received a 10-day leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...
The Rangers de-trucked in Kleinhaus at about two in the morning of 7 December 1944 then marched a couple of miles to...
Hans Courant has never been to Hiroshima or Nagasaki. He has also not returned to Alamogordo but has been back to Los...
[Annotator's Note: After liberation from a concentration camp, Severin Fayerman went to a United Nations displaced...
George R. Bolin's father was born in Galveston [Annotator's Note: Galveston, Texas]. His name was Lodwick Timothy Bolin...
More tanks came in on 4 February [Annotator's Note: 4 February 1945], and they placed guards all around as there were...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Micha Tomkiewicz how his mother coped with her experiences in the concentration...
Lester Hecht's wife [Annotator's Note: Lillian] did not mind moving back in with her parents, when Hecht went to war....
William Smith was dating the sister of a friend, but it did not last long because he went overseas. He really never saw...
Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce saw Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf Hitler] when he was in Vienna [Annotator's...

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