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Robert Fisch never wanted to talk about his wartime experiences at first. If asked, he would explain, but otherwise he...
John Foy wanted to mention something about the quartermasters. They were mostly black units, relegated to unloading...
Voniedoe "Voni" or "Bus" Grimes [Annotator's Note: drafted into the Army in late 1943] was transferred to the 246th...
While Raymond Wells was in the hospital a driver picked him up and when he got back to his company [Annotator's Note:...
When Henry Parham's unit [Annotator's Note: 320th Antiaircraft Barrage Balloon Battalion, Very Low Altitude (Colored)]...
[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA38...
Lee O. McKinnon stayed in the Navy until 1947. The Navy made good progress. When he first enlisted, there was no Navy...
Tom Quigley remembers how every Friday the officers would go to Baton Rouge for the weekend. Quigley struggled finding...
During another incident experienced by Elmo Espree in a Bombay restaurant, a British, an American and a South African...
Lawrence Winnier cannot really blame the people because it [Annotator's Note: racial discrimination in the service] was...
Rothacker Smith had no idea that war was in his future on the morning of 7 December 1941. Smith was working in a corn...
Dr. Kenneth Arrow witnessed racial discrimination in the South during his service in the United States Army Air Forces...
Rothacker Smith underwent weeks of training amid a racially tense situation at Camp Stewart, Georgia. Smith was one of...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Vaughn Whitworth if he experienced racism from other Marines while serving in...
In basic training, Norris Bucksell had a new lieutenant who would not give him a paycheck because his mustache needed...
Archie Kelley arrived at Annapolis [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland] and had to...
One time, when John Langston Harrison, Jr. was a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber]...
Dr. Roscoe Brown feels that Washington D.C. was an ambivalent city when it came to race. When they got to Virginia they...
Ernest Jackson could go off base on furlough. Some bases, like some of the little towns including Havelock and Cherry...
Alexander Jefferson went into Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: then in Sagan, Germany; now Żagań, Poland] with about...
Norman Bussel was drafted and sent to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia on a train that was really old. He arrived at two or...
Carey Eleser enlisted in the Navy and went by train to San Diego, California for basic training. He arrived around ten...
Harold Buell was on the Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-5)] only a brief time before being reassigned. He...
Dora Langsam arrived at the camp [Annotator's Note: Ravensbrück concentration camp; the largest concentration camp for...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Edgar Cole if he felt serving in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of...
Zhanna Dawson and her sister reached the rail station after a 25 kilometer walk [Annotator's Note: the two girls had...
Alan K. Simpson was playing outside when his friend, Jackie Allen, came down to his house to share the news of the...
Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] reminded Noah Lewis of Hawaii. It was hot all the time. On Guam, Lewis...
The draft board sent William Nesser a notice to report. He disregarded it, because he had his time in [Annotator's Note...
Susumas Ito believes its important to have The National WWII Museum [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana]. He...
Leedell Neyland thinks sweeping for mines was his most memorable moment of the war. They swept the mines, and they knew...
Paula Knobler feels it is important to continue World War 2 education of young people. Her oldest son, Sam, lives in...
Edward C. Cole's most memorable experience of World War 2 was arriving [Annotator's Note: in Leghorn, or Livorno, Italy...
Richard Lockhart remembers the destruction and suffering of Europe as his most memorable experience during his service...
Jack Beverstein had a good career with the FBI [Annotator's Note: Federal Bureau of Investigation]. His most memorable...
When Bill Toledo was home with his grandparents, he did not want to go to school. The school official forced him to go...

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