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Beilman, Robert City Boy to Infantry Man
[Annotator's Note: Recording begins while interviewer is prepping Robert Lewis Beilman. Actual interview begins at 0:01...
Smith, Jacques City Boy to Jump School
Jacques Brewster Smith was born in September 1923, in Buffalo [Annotator's Note: Buffalo, New York]. Due to the Great...
Gambino, Elroy City Boy to Marines
Elroy Gambino was born in March 1925 in the Irish Channel [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana]. He grew up in...
Mittleman, Harvey City Boy to Seabee
Harvey Mittleman was born in New York City [Annotator's Note: New York City, New York] in May 1925. Mittleman and his...
Alexander, Samson Civil Rights in New Orleans
Samson Alexander says the people in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] were not for the marching [...
Alexander, Samson Civil Rights Movement
Samson Alexander did a lot of things in the Civil Rights Movement. He did not know people had become hardened and mean...
Will, George Civil War Connections to World War 2
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks historian George Will about his and his father's personal connections to...
Heneghan, James Civilian Life During the War
Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...
Gilmore, Selwyn Civilian Regrets
Selwyn Gilmore fit back in when he got home. He did not go to work right away. He regrets not going to college when it...
Lowe, Robert Cleaning Up Pearl Harbor
[Annotator's Note: Robert Lowe and men from his outfit, a detachment of the US Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battlion, were...
Daniels, Don Clearing Caves of Japanese
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Don Daniels to describe the process of clearing caves by hand on Iwo Jima,...
Biondo, Frank Clearing Omaha Beach
[Annotator's Note: Frank Biondo and his Company C, 5th Engineer Special Brigade were sheltering behind steel girders as...
Tomkiewicz, Micha Climate Change and the Holocaust
Micha Tomkiewicz fills his time trying to informally study and understand the history of the Holocaust. For him, the...
Mirsky, Arnold Close Call Crash
Arnold A. Mirsky was assigned as a navigator for the 1st Photo Mapping Charting Reconnaissance [Annotator's Note: 1st...
Paschal, Robert Close Call on a Mission
Robert W. Paschal was trained to hate the Germans and the Japanese so that troops would not have a problem shooting at...
Aldous, Robert Close Call on Mindoro
When Robert G. Aldous first got to Mindoro [Annotator's Note: Mindoro, Philippines in January 1945 with the 319th...
Nolan, Warren Close Call on the Bridge
Near the end of the war, Warren Nolan was near Okinawa. They would spend months at general quarters and were exhausted...
Daniels, Don Close Calls on Iwo Jima
Don Daniels' closest call was an accident. His unit [Annotator's Note: Weapons Platoon, Company A, 1st Battalion, 28th...
Angst, Lawrence Close-calls and Being Wounded
Lawrence Angst remembers one close call very well. He was in basic training with another man. They were both first in...
Tweedt, Vernon T. Closer to Death
A guy approached Vernon Tweedt's wife at a reunion and told her he wanted to share something about Tweedt. Their...
Bucher, Francis Closest to Death and Stateside Service
Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...
Whaley, Ellis Closing Thoughts
Ellis Whaley's most memorable experience from World War 2 would have to be Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa...
Curran, Philip Closing Thoughts
Philip Curran's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when they hit a typhoon outside of the Yellow Sea [...
Beard, Oral Closing Thoughts
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...
Tyson, Marvin Closing Thoughts
Marvin Tyson served because he would serve his country any time and was drafted. He doubts he would have served if not...
Edwards, Marvin Closing Thoughts
Marvin Raymond Edwards' most memorable experience of the war was the horrible treatment by the Germans and their cold-...
Medway, Irwin Closing Thoughts
Irwin Medway encountered anti-Semitism in Tennessee. He was beat up by another soldier. It has something to do with...
Evans, Donald Closing Thoughts
Before he went in the service, Donald Evans never went to church. Over there, he prayed all the time to be kept safe....
Armentaro, Louis Closing Thoughts
When Louis J. Armentaro went in, there was another kid from Livingston [Annotator's Note: Livingston, Montana] that he...
Drucker, Lillian Closing Thoughts
Lillian Drucker's brothers all had medical discharges and had income from that. She and her husband bought their first...
Amoss, Walter "Jimmy" Closing Thoughts
Walter Amoss feels nostalgic when he visits the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans,...
Jagers, Robert Closing Thoughts
Robert Jagers has two memorable experiences of World War 2. Once when coming back from Sicily, [Annotator's Note:...
Spint, Robert Closing Thoughts
Robert Spint's most memorable experience of World War 2 is hard for him to say. He does not classify any of it. Some of...
Lynch, James Closing Thoughts
As James Paul Lynch looks back, there were not really normal families back in that time [Annotator's Note: the time of...
Culpepper, George Closing Thoughts
George Culpepper was in Farragut, Idaho for school for about three months [Annotator's Note: after enlisting in the...
Jaffe, Stanley Closing Thoughts
Dr. Stanley Jaffe's single most memorable experience of World War 2 was leaving Chamonix [Annotator's Note: Chamonix-...

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