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Malta, Samuel Adjusting to Civilian Life
Samuel Malta and the men in combat were just kids who were 18 or 19 years old. The combat troops felt they were...
Gross, Ernest Adjusting to Life After the Holocaust
Holocaust survivor Ernest Gross gives talks in the schools to teach them not to hate and to get along with each other....
Manasse, Fred Adolescence and Education in America
There wasn't enough room in any of the family's homes for Fred Manasse and his brother, so it fell to the JCCA [...
Bussel, Norman Advice to Volunteers
Norman Bussel advises anybody going into the service to really think about it. It is not a pastime or a hobby or a...
DeMott, Joseph After Effects of Captivity
Joseph DeMott eventually lost track of the friends he made in the prison camps on Java. One of the men, who had part of...
Bradley, John After Liberation
After liberation [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...
Taylor, Amelia After Pearl Harbor
Amelia Taylor discussed the developments of the war while she was in high school. It was very real to them. They...
Cole, Arles After the Pearl Harbor Attack
Arles E. Cole left Pearl Harbor the next morning [Annotator’s Note: Cole was a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (...
Carroll, Wesley After the Raid on Shortland Harbor
In Auckland, New Zealand, Wesley Carroll “got a virus or something,” and ended up in the hospital. He was sent back to...
Redmond, Leroy After the War
After the war, Leroy Redmond returned to his job at Westinghouse. He got married after three years. He married the girl...
Ramsey, Frank After the War
Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force...
Franzky, Gerhard After the War
For many years, Gerhard Franzky put the war in the back of his mind. He was more concerned with building a future. He...
Quirk, Clint After the War
Clint Quirk was not assigned to a ship. [Annotator’s Note: Quirk was in the Merchant Marines]. He went into the union...
King, William After The War
William King did not want to stay in the Army after the war. He bought an Army surplus jeep with ten cartons of...
Brewer, Chester After the War and Parting Thoughts
Chester Brewer went to help a man build homes after the war. His former employer hired him back. He met his wife. He...
Long, Donald Aftermath of Pearl Harbor
Donald Long did not know what to make of the attack on Pearl Harbor and Hawaii. [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack...
Bache-Wiig, John Air Corps to Infantry to France
John Bache-Wiig, Jr. went to Mather Field in Sacramento [Annotator's Note: Sacramento, California] for special unit...
Gomez, Hewitt Air Force Training
Hewitt Brian Gomez was sent to Greensburg, North Carolina for seven weeks of Air Force basic training. The first...
Maduell, Audrey Air Raids and Military Reservists
Audrey Maduell had an air raid shelter right across from her house. Her father would bring coffee to the workers...
Brandes, Rita Allied Bombing of Bremen
Rita Brandes has vivid memories of the bombing raids. Bremen [Annotator's Note: Bremen, Germany] was one of the three...
Larson, William Always Put in Charge
William Larson always got caught doing something en route. After he was inducted at Fort Crook [Annotator's Note: now...
Baron, Judith America
Judith Baron got married and lived in New York City. Her husband did not like the city because it was too fast for him...
Radke Azvedo, Ingrid America
After surviving the bombing of Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin was bombed 363 times between 1940 and 1945] as a child...
Campbell, John America Won and Lost
John Campbell says that America won the war and lost the peace. We were out-negotiated by Churchill [Annotator's Note:...
Taffel, Nathan America, Family Reunions and Going Back to Poland
Nathan Taffel came to the United States and lost contact with his brother in Argentina. Taffel had a brother-in-law in...
König, Karl American Prison Camps to Home
Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] does not remember much about arriving in Norfolk [...
Cohn, Marthe American Spirit Awards
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer says she wants to ask Marthe Cohn some specific questions about the American Spirit...
Cohn, Marthe An Adopted Son
Marthe Cohn and her whole group went to Quang Tri [Annotator's Note: Quang Tri Province, Vietnam; then French Indochina...
Hicks, Ora Pierce An Interesting Life
Ora Hicks has had an interesting life. If anything went wrong, she did not take it to heart. There is always another...
Nakagawa, Ittsei Ancestry to Atomic Illness
Ittsei Nakagawa's father's side of the family came over to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Japan] around 1904...
DeCarlo, Mario Anecdotal War Stories
Mario DeCarlo recalls electrocuting himself when he attempted to install a light bulb in his pup tent one night. He...
Fouts, Henry Anecdotes
The housing at Henry Sherman Fouts' base was very primitive. He slept on a canvas cot and had only a couple of blankets...
Geist, Lloyd Anecdotes and Postwar Careers
Lloyd Geist recalls that during the Battle of Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Saint-Lô, France] he was sitting in his...
Hirschmann, Peter Anti-Semitism in Germany and the US
Peter Hirschmann and his Jewish family were an accepted part of the German population prior to Hitler's [Annotator's...
Jagers, Robert Anzio
At the time of Robert Jagers' landing [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS LST-351] at Anzio [Annotator's Note: Battle of...
Schulman, Shirley Apart During War
Newlyweds, Shirley Sandy Schulman, and Hyman parted ways at a train station. Schulman headed home to Brooklyn [...

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