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[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan did not...
William L. Snow [Annotator's Note: with the 812th Bombardment Squadron, 482nd Bombardment Group] completed 35 missions...
When Robert Bassemir arrived at Cologne [Annotator's Note: Köln (Cologne), Germany with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 415th...
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the other internees at Santo Tomas [Annotator's Note: Santo Tomas Internment Camp,...
Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...
When Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery Battalion, 87th...
James "Jim" L. Brooks [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 307th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] was...
Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith joined the Navy in late 1945. He was in boot camp [Annotator's Note: San Diego,...
After Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetak Atoll, Marshall Islands], Raymond Gimbut sailed to California, then to the...
Warren Nolan was discharged from the Navy in New Orleans, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: in June 1946]. He went into the...
[Annotator's Note: The video is glitchy in this segment] Walter Louis Beyer served in the Pacific Theater in World War...
George Grugett and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 380th Bombardment Squadron, 310th Bombardment Group, 57th Bombardment...
Mary R. Stricklan celebrated V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] with her future husband. His...
Mary Frances Dorothy Wood was still in college and was delighted when the war ended in Europe. It was terrible to learn...
Richard Lamey Nesossis was at home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in...
Kent Butzer Kellegrew does not remember when he was discharged but remembers that he was on Guam [Annotator's Note:...
Nita Fay Overby worked for an aircraft plant [Annotator's Note: The Midwest City Douglas Aircraft Company Plant in...
Heywood Mason [Annotator's Note: a Private 1st Class in the US Army 88th Infantry Division] recovered from a case of...
After the Japanese surrendered, James Stewart Rosenbaum thought he would be heading home, but he and his unit [...
While on Guam, Orville Carroll and some men built a small bamboo chapel, where they would sing without instruments....
[Annotator's Note: An off-camera male interjects throughout this clip.] Carl Robert Gatlin and his regiment [Annotator'...
Following VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], Marvin Sussman was stationed in the town of...
Richard Tempus Dixon's time in the Philippines was interesting. Some of the natives got hold of some hand grenades and...
Ben Ray Bost loved getting Marines on board ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316], especially those from North...
The war ended and the president [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] died...
In training at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts [Annotator's Note: in Cape Cod, Massachusetts with the 141st Infantry...
Robert "Bob" Lowry left the Navy as a Seaman 1st Class. When he was young in Greenwood [Annotator's Note: Greenwood,...
Charles R. Brown [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 66th Armored Infantry Battalion, 12th Armored Division]...
Whayland Harvel Greene [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division] was slightly...
Florence MacCallum [Annotator’s Note: a citizen of England working for the U.S. Army Joint Chiefs of Staff in London,...
William Ebersole was on Iwo Jima when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: the first atomic...
When Bernard Friedenberg [Annotator's Note: a medic with the Medical Detachment, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment...
Frank Golemi was in France when the war ended. He flew an aircraft back to the United States. He thought he was going...
Lillian Hoover was kept informed of what was going on in the war. Her base [Annotator's Note: Naval Air Technical...
Leon J. Neiman was at a pool room when he heard the bomb had been dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...

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