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After the Louisiana Maneuvers [Annotator's Note: series of Army exercises held in Louisiana in 1941], Delbert Wombacher...
Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] is small and had no difficulty in moving around in the...
Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] was on the airstrip on the second day [...
The Germans had several towers with radars on them that Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS...
In the early part of 1944, Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] were put in a...
[Annotator's Note: Frank Purvis was in New York when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...
Alan Moskin went to Syracuse [Annotator's Note: in Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York] when he was 17 and got his...
William Nesser went to the Army Transportation Corps. When he got there, the USS Kermanshah [Annotator's Note: SS...
Leroy Redmond started at Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: Fort Dix, New Jersey] and was then sent to Camp Breckenridge,...
Luba Keller was motivated to tell the stories of her time in the concentration camps because her synagogue suggested...
Martin Richard does not really recall his first debriefing on D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy,...
Austin H. Kiplinger was aboard the USS Altamaha [Annotator's Note: USS Altamaha (CVE-18) and did anti-submarine...
[Annotator's Note: Norma Halberg graduated from her training for the Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs at Avenger...
[Annotator's Note: Raymond Cauble flew as a test pilot for the 312th Depot Repair Squadron, 41st Air Depot Group, 15th...
Fiske Hanley II was born in January 1920 in Brownwood, Texas. The Hanley family moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, then...
James Mather was born in February 1923 in Caddo, Texas. His father was in the oil business by maintaining the oil wells...
Austeen Bice was born in August 1923 in New Boston, Texas with five brothers and one sister. His father was a farmer...
Selwyn Gilmore was drafted and went in on 17 August 1943. He stayed in Camp Beauregard [Annotator's Note: Pineville,...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore if his meeting a variety of types of people in the service...
Henry Schaller got discharged. He flew home in a new plane that nothing worked in. He flew from Italy to Africa and...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Dr. Norman Francis how he feels about receiving the American Spirit Awards'...
[Annotator's Note: Running water can be heard throughout segment.] Alfred A. Lingo returned from the Aleutian Islands...
Ingrid Radke-Azvedo was living in Berlin, Germany when the city was divided by the Allies. The Russians wanted all of...
[Annotator's Note: The audio was cut off and the tape restarts midsentence. When it does, Bud Loring is talking about...
Itka Zygmuntowicz learned to appreciate life in Auschwitz because she could lose her life at any second. Even among the...
Albert Elmer "John" Cummings was with the Asiatic Fleet [Annotator's Note: United States Asiatic Fleet, 1902 to 1942]....
When Lester Hecht was in Mindanao [Annotator's Note: Mindanao, Philippines], the aircraft he was in charge of always...
Richard O'Hara was on Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] when the bomb [Annotator's Note:...
Isabella Karle heard on the radio that the atom bomb had been dropped. At first she was amazed that it actually worked...
[Annotator's Note: Frank Purvis had served in the Atlantic for nearly the entire war then transferred to the Pacific...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe was on the parade grounds at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii when the Japanese attacked on 7...
Ernest L. Poulson recalled driving around with a friend and a couple of girls when he heard the news on the radio that...
Robert Rans' first impression of the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was that it was...
The B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber] was a four engine bomber. Hersey Goodwin has read...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Bueker to describe the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber he was a...
David K. Hayward loved the B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber]. It seemed big to him...

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