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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer tells a story about another soldier talking about hand-to-hand combat.] Joseph...
James "Jim" L. Brooks [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force]...
[Annotator's Note: Maud Dahme and her sister were reunited with their parents in April 1945 after hiding from the Nazis...
Selwyn Gilmore was drafted and was given a preference. He just missed being eligible for OCS [Annotator's Note: officer...
Sergeant Carter [Annotator's Note: UNited States Marine Corps Sergeant James "Rudy" Carter] was a stickler for the...
Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
Lester Shapiro was in a combat engineering outfit [Annotator's Note: 209th Engineer Combat Battalion] and was the first...
As an adult decades later, there was a disaster in the Atlantic with the Andrea Doria [Annotator's Note: the SS Andrea...
Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] remembers John...
Robert G. Aldous did not have nightmares early on. He has reoccurrences of some of the things he went through during...
Tsuyin Soong did not encounter any Japanese soldiers until after the war ended. There were a lot of Japanese soldiers...
Edgar Harrell had very little energy and was just hoping for someone to discover him [Annotator's Note: while floating...
Donald Lewis was in the bottom of a lifeboat that was crowded [Annotator's Note: after the SS Athenia was struck by a...
[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, New Guinea. He was rescued and...
Stephen Ananian's first combat mission was a ramrod mission, one where fighters escort bombers. Cowboys in the old days...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Swanson was assigned to the USCGC Comanche (WPG-76) on escort duty for the troop transport...
At Alife [Annotator's Note: Alife, Italy], Norman Raner heard a chap hollering because he was hurt. A tank that Raner...
Lawson T. Winslow, Junior really enjoyed the Navy and would have been happy if they told him he had to stay on another...
After three years of being in an internment camp [Annotator's Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment...
James Wilson recuperated and was taken to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Guadalcanal...
Lloyd Dendy went to the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Solomon Islands]. Pavuvu and Mbanika were coconut...
George Grugett had read and studied history. He was amazed at what he saw, especially in cities like Rome [Annotator's...
Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout this clip as he had a stroke and has trouble remembering...
Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...
Delbert Franklin Hackman [Annotator's Note: a mechanic with Headquarters Battery, 391st Armored Field Artillery...
George W. Bachmann, Junior [Annotator's Note: a waist gunner in the 367th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group...
fter occupation in Japan, Elroy Gambino and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment,...
[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman ended...
Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, Fifth...
After 13 months in occupied Japan, Clark Wackerman was able to return home. The return home was much worse than the...
Stewart Hihn [Annotator's Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] was transferred from the 42nd...
George Mitchell was in Escondido [Annotator's Note: Escondido, California] and received a letter from a General's [...
Samson Alexander had it made in the Air Force. In Japan, he had clothes made for him by Japanese women and he...
Judith Rothenberg [Annotator's Note: A Belgian Jewish child who had escaped to France, Spain, and Palestine with her...
Martin Brignac had no trouble adjusting to civilian life. He and his brother went into the carpentry business. They did...

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