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Joseph Dean Reilly went back to work when he returned home. He could use the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill,...
Paul Fair thinks MacArthur’s [Annotator's Note: General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander, Southwest...
Samuel Spector recalled hearing of the war in Europe ending and the atomic bombs being dropped. He was in Burma when he...
Roger Shaw decided to be a doctor after his service because he wanted more education. He quickly finished his...
Gary Tate had the opportunity to work with the brother of General Claire Chennault while both of them served in their...
When Ray Gene Gresham got out of the service, he didn't think the G.I. Bill could help him enough to afford college...
After graduating from college, Harry Bell interviewed with a number of business who were then hiring engineers. Bell...
With the war ended in Europe, James Eyre Wainwright [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in the 326th Bombardment...
After World War 2, Hewitt Brian Gomez moved to Lafayette [Annotator's Lafayette, Louisiana] and worked for a catering...
Harold Roed spent a year and a half at Saint Olaf [Annotator's Note: Saint Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota], a...
John Langston Harrison, Jr. was able to cope and made stronger [Annotator's Note: by being underestimated by people...
Frank Curtis McBride’s father and uncle had a pattern shop [Annotator’s Note: a pattern shop develops templates and...
After being discharged from service in World War 2, James D. Comeaux adjusted easily to civilian life and attended...
Charles T. Edwards was able to go home after the war had ended. He did not want to return to the steel factory but...
Gene M. Cushman commends Reagan [Annotator’s Note: Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th president of the United States] for his...
Elmer Spraker thought he might transition into rebuilding maritime engines in the civilian sector, and in this section...
Leon Hirsch enjoyed doing advance theater work for a while but found it not lucrative enough so he took a job as a...
Lionel Lopez was a shoe salesman before the war. He went back to work for the same company after he got out of the...
Claude Bufford Shaw didn't come immediately back to the United States when the war ended as he was making a career of...
After his discharge, Benjamin Bederson went back to City College of New York and, given his credit for the education he...
When he left the Navy, Carey Suratt worked as a brick man for the Pennsylvania railroad. He helped make coal cars....
Harold Beal did not want to stay in the Navy. He had PTSD [Annotator's Note: post-traumatic stress disorder; a mental...
Blaine Kern went to Czechoslovakia to tour the glass industry. The secret police were following him. He has a factory...
In 1949, Herbert W. Ridyard took a job with NACA, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which was the forerunner...
Alfred Anthony Alvarez was given a platoon in the 187th Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: 187th Glider Infantry...
Lloyd Guillory had a very successful and lucrative career as an architect. It allowed him to enjoy ownership of...
Henry Burkle went to the ballistic missile command in California, and then he did top secret contract work. He wanted...
Ryan O'Brien had a great homecoming. He had ten days at the Delmar Beach Club in Santa Monica [Annotator's Note: Santa...
Ed Weber used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was enacted by...
Rosemary Fagot remembers the difficulties she had translating for the United Fruit Company because of the cultural...
Lloyd Geist contributes his military and career success to his basic flying instructor, who taught him to feel the...
Yukio Kawamoto was a precious child for his parents. The draft got him and he went to war. Kawamoto worked for the...
Robert Taylor retired from the Navy on 31 May 1970. He had worked at a medical research laboratory at Camp LeJeune,...
Leo V. Strausbaugh was offered a chance to go home for 30 days, but he would have to forfeit all his points [Annotator'...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Alfred "Al" Danegger how the war changed his life.] The war changed Danegger's...
Norman Alden Briggs came home in 1946 and married on 7 May 1947. He went to trade school using the G.I. Bill [Annotator...

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