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Rothenheber, Paul Returning Home
Paul Rothenheber was excited to be back home. He smoked alot of cigarettes at the time. When he would go home, he gave...
Shapiro, Lester Returning Home
Lester Shapiro could have stayed in the service and been a Warrant Officer. He was discharged at Fort Dix [Annotator's...
Childs, Charles "Chuck" Returning Home
Charles Childs was sent by boat to the United States. His radar-navigator was sent back with him. Childs was a Captain...
Freeman, Bradford Returning Home and Band of Brothers
Bradford Clark Freeman had the points [Annotator's Note: a point system was devised based on a number of factors that...
Loidolt, Raymond Returning Home and Closing Thoughts
Raymond Loidolt took a Navy destroyer back to the United States from China. They went through mines [Annotator's Note:...
Guidry, Edmond Returning Home and Closing Thoughts
Edmond Guidry went to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on the Texas [Annotator's Note: USS...
Varuso, Anthony Returning Home and Combat Memories
Anthony Varuso served in the Navy for three years and eight months. He had rotated back to the United States by the...
Dorsey, Mason Returning Home and Concentration Camps
When Mason Dorsey was returning to the United States, he says that if they would have said they were returning to...
Ram, Walter Returning Home and Dealing with the War
Walter Ram left Europe by ship on 3 June [Annotator's Note: 3 June 1945], and reached the United States on 11 June. Red...
Jaber, Anton Returning Home and Joining the Air Force
After the Germans surrendered, the units moved back gradually. Anton Jaber thinks he went through every one of the...
Pigott, Terrell Returning Home and Postwar
Terrell Lavern Pigott sailed home on the the West Point [Annotator's Note: USS West Point (AP-23)], which was a sister...
Martin, James Returning Home and Postwar
[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...
Wells, Kenneth Returning Home and Postwar
After being wounded in Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] Kenneth Dwight Wells was taken to an airfield and...
Brasel, Robert Returning Home and Postwar
Robert J. "Bob" Brasel and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Platoon, Battery C, 389th Antiaircraft Artillery (...
Machaud, Albert Returning Home and Postwar
[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] In March 1949, Albert "Al" Machaud received...
Rosenzweig, Abraham Returning Home and Postwar
Abraham Rosenzweig suffered from a punctured eardrum when an explosion occurred near his boat near the island [...
Brown, Charles Returning Home and Postwar
About two weeks after war in Europe ended, Charles R. Brown [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 66th Armored...
Sherbecoe, Martin Returning Home and Postwar
Martin Sherbecoe served for over eight months [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty in Japan] and earned enough points...
Thelen, Richard Returning Home and Postwar
When Richard Thelen returned home, he served at the Grosse Ile Naval Air Station outside of Detroit [Annotator's Note:...
Hanning, David Returning Home and Postwar
David Hanning was assigned as an assistant to a lieutenant and then to the headquarters of an adjutant general where he...
Cook, Edward Returning Home and Postwar
Edward J. Cook was transferred to a Red Cross hospital ship somewhere in France. His arm was amputated because shrapnel...
Marolda, Theodore Returning Home and Postwar
Theodore Marolda returned to the United States via San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. It was...
Hillenbrand, Bernard Returning Home and Postwar
Bernard Hillenbrand was moved back to England into a hospital [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle...
McGuire, Joseph Returning Home and Postwar Career
Joseph McGuire returned to the United States in 1944 and reported to Nashville [Annotator's Note: Nashville, Tennessee...
Hever, John Returning Home and Postwar Life
John Hever noted that when they got to Seattle, Washington, there was no parade. The returning soldiers and sailors...
Radford, Charles Returning Home and Postwar Life
Charles Radford was put in a tent with a bunch of wounded guys after the surgery [Annotator's Note: after being wounded...
Smith, Thomas Returning Home and Postwar Life
After the war ended, Thomas J. Smith, Junior and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine...
Howard, William Returning Home and Postwar Life
After the war ended, William Edwin Howard started a newspaper. He was sent to Darmstadt, Germany for a long time. He...
Engel, Robert Returning Home and Postwar Life
The day the war ended, Robert Engel was in a town in Germany. The manure and urine from cows were kept in the town for...
Biondo, Frank Returning Home and Postwar Life
Frank Biondo was not doing much after the war was over. He took a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for...
Davis, Romay Returning Home and Racism
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...
Harrison, Joseph "Joe" Returning Home and Recalling Battle
Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....
Stachel, Robert Returning Home and Recollections
Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] flew 19...
Bowsher, Walter Returning Home and Reenlistment
Walter Bowsher was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: after his liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Japan] where he...
Yamamoto, Albert Returning Home and Reflecting on the Atomic Bombs
Albert Yamamoto had to wait for his United States citizenship to be verified before he could return to home from Japan...
Tallon, Donald Returning Home and Reflecting on the War
Don Tallon [Annotator's Note: a liberated former prisoner of war in Magdeburg, Germany] saw of couple of his former...

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