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Strait, Perry Wartime Sea Duty
Perry Strait saw he had signed up for the USMS [Annotator's Note: United States Maritime Service] but was assured if he...
Blake, Christopher Wartime Service and Postwar Activities
Christopher Blake was born in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in 1921, but spent most of his life in...
Rosenbloom, Myers War’s End
Myers Bernard Rosenbloom left Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan] and went 7,000 miles across the ocean back...
Daquana, Joseph War’s End
Before VJ Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Joseph Daquana was reassigned to the USS...
Brannon, Mark War’s End
Mark Brannon was given a 30 day terminal leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time],...
Gomberg, Clarence "Code" War’s End & Postwar
Clarence Gomberg served as a medic on Hospital Train 5, also referred to as the 78th Hospital Train. The first time he...
Payn, Thomas War’s End and Discharge
Thomas Payn discussed how the allied ships detected U-boats [Annotator's Note: German submarines], and what happened...
Schraub, Jesse War’s End and Discharge
Jesse Schraub served in the Army as a mortarman in Company A of the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion and took part in...
Campbell, John War’s End and False Histories
The war was over and John Scott Campbell was working at Montgomery Ward [Annotator's Note: American department store...
Weinreich, Frieda War’s End and Liberation
Frieda Weinreich remembered two girls who ran away from a work camp and ended up coming to the Parschnitz Slave Labor...
Oldberg, Nils War’s End and Postwar
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...
Dannehl, Robert War’s End and Postwar
Robert Dannehl was a radio operator [Annotator’s Note: for the US Navy serving about the USS Hubbard (DE-211)]. He...
Jarvis, Robert War’s End and Postwar
In the summer of 1945, Robert Jarvis’ unit [Annotator’s Note: 534th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, 4th Engineer...
Meyers, William War’s End and Postwar
William S. Meyers, Jr. [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 929th Field Artillery Battalion, 104th Infantry Division]...
Hissey, Paul War’s End and Postwar
Paul Hissey remembered when the war ended all the fighter planes were destroyed because they did not want them to fall...
Ciotta, Angelo War’s End and Postwar Life
Angelo Ciotta was between Camp LeJeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina...
Davis, Arthur War’s End and Postwar Life
The USS Missouri (BB-63) was in the Brooklyn Navy Yard when Arthur Davis designed its camouflage. Davis remembers it...
David, James War’s End and Returning Home
James Warren David recalled a time while he was in Pool Boat 12 when a Chaplain and local representative wanted to go...
Hibbard, Hershel War’s End and Returning Home
Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...
Vargas, Jay War’s End and Welcoming the Troops Home
Jay R. Vargas remember discussing with neighbors what was going in Europe and the Pacific. Everyone in his town found...
Wilson, Anderson War’s End, Going Home and Reflections
Anderson Wilson was on leave in Paris [Annotator's Note: Paris, France] when the war ended. When they had first arrived...
Kruse, Shirley WASP Assignments and Deactivation of the Group
[Annotator's Note: After graduating from the Women Airforce Service Pilot's program, Shirley Chase Kruse was assigned...
Halberg, Norma WASP Flight Training
Norma Halberg does not recall how many hours of primary training she had. She went from the Stearman [Annotator's Note...
Halberg, Norma WASPs Disbanded
[Annotator's Note: The Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs were disbanded on 20 December 1944, which came as a...
Pbert, Herman Watching the Soviets
When Herman Pbert was going back to Germany [Annotator's Note: in 1950], he said he would be so bad against them [...
Smith, William J. Water Landing Details
[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.] They were on...
Rippin, Elsie WAVES Experience
On the day she was discharged [Annotator's Note: from the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES);...
Jackson, Earnest We Are Able
Ernest Jackson feels that his group [Annotator's Note: the African-American Marines at Montford Point Camp in...
Taylor, Amelia We Are All the Same
Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...
Dahme, Maud We Are All the Same Inside
Maud Dahme stayed with Christian families and attended church with them during the war [Annotator's Note: she had gone...
Gorman, Ted We Just Eat, Sleep, and Work
[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...
Twigger, William Weapons and Officers
The first weapon William J. Twigger had when he entered the Marine Corps was the Springfield rifle [Annotator's Note: ....
Weber, Norman Weber's Reunion with His Father
Norman Weber’s father was drafted into the German Army in 1941. The family was with him in Poland during 1944. He was...
Bradley, John West Point
John Bradley and his mother moved to the United States in 1949 [Annotator's Note: they were liberated 3 February 1945,...
Bourgeois, Emiline West Point Hospital Duty
Emiline Ann Bourgeois was stationed at West Point [Annotator's Note: as an Army nurse at the hospital of the United...
Cauble, Raymond West Pointers
Raymond Cauble won an airplane ride in 1935. Cauble volunteered for the service due to patriotism. He says he would...

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