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Wendell Galbraith was discharged at Fort Sheridan, Illinois as a Tech Sergeant [Annotator's Note: Technical Sergeant;...
Vernon Wold's most memorable experience of World War 2 was feeling the 57 [Annotator's Note: M1 57mm anti-tank gun]...
Donald Lewis feels lucky [Annotator's Note: for surviving the sinking of the SS Athenia on 3 September 1939 when he was...
Arthur Spaulding reads World War II magazine [Annotator's Note: published by History-Net], and it has been his ambition...
Sam V. Abate's service time was a waste of three years. He came back to nothing. He could not get a job and tried to...
[Annotator's Note: Helene Bouton still dreams of her Holocaust experiences every night.] She dreams now that it is her...
Jerome Harold Black does not think there will ever be another war with trenches and where tanks will be used. It is all...
Thomas Eakes says his time in the service would not be the same now. He was not cut-out for the service. He spent three...
Each regiment had a book with pictures in it. When the war was over, Thomas J. Smith, Junior felt like a curtain came...
Harry George Paege, Junior did not think about staying in the Army. He wanted to go to college and be a lawyer. He got...
Irving Baum learned the value of life [Annotator's Note: from his World War 2 experiences]. Everybody needs help...
Willie Roy Hebert did not talk with his family about the war. [Annotator's Note: Hebert's wife talks about her father...
David K. Hayward did not continue flying after the war. He did fly once while working for Texaco [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: Severin Fayerman survived concentration camps in Europe. The interviewer asks if the pendulum swings...
It is tough for Earl Colson to remember things from so long ago. He returned home and was discharged at Fort Dix [...
Henry Lederer was most affected losing his friend Jerry [Annotator's Note: no further name is given] in a training...
Paris Tognoli wonders how he made it. He pondered that many times in his life. He got to go home. When he landed in the...
The war made Harold Daniel Snyder a man. His time in the Army Air Corps was as good as two years in college. He learned...
Since Alfred Dearman did not participate in World War 2, his most memorable experience was being at Sugamo Prison [...
[Annotator's Note: It is very difficult to understand Carleton Cleveland due to sound issues throughout this clip.]...
F.M. Richard Simons thinks it would be nice if people remember the good things [Annotator's Note: about World War 2]....
Joseph Traina met a girl in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] and got married there. They moved to...
Eugene Henry Gierka's most memorable experience was his being exposed as an interpreter to a couple hundred Polish...
Phineas Stevens feels it is absolutely important that future generations continue to study World War 2. It was horrible...
Fred B. Morgan, Junior is glad he was a medic [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 505th...
Robert E. Foster was a Captain at the end of the war after his company commander was shot and he took over. He became a...
The events of the war that really stand out in Mildred "Jean" Liparoto's memory are Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note:...
Victor Fienup does not think about the war and has not had bad thoughts about it. Even from his days as a POW [...
Most Americans today do not know much or care very much about World War 2. The education system does not teach children...
Rufus Harris does not recall celebrating the atomic bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...
After the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive, 16 December 1944 to 25...
[Annotator's Note: Holocaust survivor Gerda Klein can be very difficult to understand at points throughout this clip.]...
Thomas D. Thompson did not seek any treatment for the issues he was having [Annotator's Note: with post traumatic...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Seymour Nussenbaum believes it is important to...
The war was a challenging experience for Edgar De Pue Osgood. There are other ways of getting those challenges, like...
It is hard for Robert S. Rugeley to choose his most memorable experience of World War 2. One, is that they were...

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