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Maud Dahme's parents did not want to know what had happened to her during the years she and her sister were gone from...
While on Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville, Solomon Islands], the island was not fully secured. Haney...
[Annotator's Note: Leslie Cruise continuously refers to a book that he has on his lap.] Leslie Cruise remarks that...
Henry Langrehr fought his way through a church yard [Annotator's Note: in Sainte-Mère-Église, France on D-Day, 6 June...
Arthur Smith operated there [Annotator's Note: Mindoro, Philippines] until they secured the Philippines. They worked...
The Army had events for the soldiers who had fought the war. They could go to Switzerland, Paris [Annotator's Note:...
George Colburn does not believe in bravery. The last thing on your mind is getting a medal. Medals counted for points...
After being discharged, Monroe Scherer attended college on the G.I. Bill. Most of the students in his classes were...
Robert Rupp was born in 1918 in Aurora, Nebraska. He lived there until he went to college. The worst of the Great...
Louise Settles worked in personnel, mostly making assignments. She had never left the United States before the Army....
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Chester Brewer about a story of when he threw his hat down at a colonel.]...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Bud Loring how he got out of his burning aircraft over France.] He just climbed...
Ben Kuroki grew up with Caucasian friends. There were only a few Japanese American families around at the time. The...
When Charles Scheffel became a platoon leader, he used all of the ammunition that they could teaching his men about...
Ben Kuroki was amazed that he only saw one Japanese Zero [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi A6M fighter aircraft, also known...
Barney Old Coyote’s unit received Presidential Unit Citations for the job they did in bombing bases in the...
[Annotators Note: The beginning of this segment is the beginning of the interview, at 00:50:04:000 the interview picks...
Crump was able to get a gold crown in his teeth and was able to join. This was in late 1943. Crump was told then that...
Carrel Reavis took a train to Wilmington, North Carolina and then a bus to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note: Jacksonville...
Isaac Edward and the 92nd Infantry Division proved that black soldiers could fight as well as anybody else. In Florida...
After getting his orders, George Hardy went straight to Keesler Field, Mississippi. That train trip was an eye opener....
In March 1944, [Annotator's Note: after completing training with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)] Helias...
Audrey Maduell would have servicemen ask for her pictures. One Marine was egotistical. She met him in Pensacola [...
On 1 September 1939, Mary Frances Dorothy Wood and the students at her school were given noticed that they were leaving...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Leon Grunte to talk about August 1944.] He received an invitation from the...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Philips was wounded by artillery fire on 25 September 1944.] Philips was in the 97th General...
Luba Keller and the working-age Jewish population of Szydłowiec, Poland were taken to an ammunition factory in...
In Münster [Annotator's Note: Münster, Germany], Gerard Dillon got called to battalion [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion...
Alton Bourg entered service in the Army at Fort Meade, Maryland [Annotator's Note: Fort George Meade, Maryland] and was...
Robert Payne graduated OCS [Annotator's Note: Officer Candidate School] as a Second Lieutenant and his father gave him...
There was a lot more going on in Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953] for Philip Curran,...
Carroll George was on a transport ship that made tremendous voyages, two to the Far East and one to the Mediterranean,...
[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer received his discharge orders on 10 December 1945 while on occupation duty in Kagoshima...
Robert Boeke [Annotator's Note: with the 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division] opened an enlisted men's club...
Alfred "Al" Danegger and other photographers would often take pictures that included themselves. They recorded many...
When Clarence Carlson was assigned to England he had no idea what it would look like. The English were very good to...

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