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Robert Spint lost a good friend who had gone in the service, was shipped to the Philippines, and was killed when his...
Lorraine Achee's father had died when they were very young. Her mother would mention the pending war news once in a...
Joseph Dean Reilly had a deferment [Annotator's Note: postponement of military service] because he was working for a...
Merrill J. Clark grew up in Chicago, Illinois. His father was employed during the Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...
Adolph Edward Asher was born March 1916 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. During the...
Robert Boeke and his classmates talked about the war in social studies class. He sang in the boys' choir. They started...
Norman Hatch graduated from high school in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1938. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great...
Ruffin Walker Dawson was born in Saint Francisville, Louisiana in 1924 [Annotator's Note: November 1924]. He grew up on...
After his brother was drafted into the infantry, Donald F. Goyette was accompanied by his parents when he went off for...
Ed Weber went into the service on 5 December 1942 and went to the San Diego Marine Corps base [Annotator's Note: Marine...
Leon Dixon can only remember that it was 7 December 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...
Harry George Paege, Junior had his 21st birthday in the service. He was a bugler. He got a letter that said his mother...
In June 1943, Don Carter was drafted with 60 other boys from his town [Annotator's Note: Hornell, New York]. They...
Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military newspaper] did run...
After Cherbourg [Annotator's Note: Cherbourg, France], Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: correspondent for the Stars...
Thomas Michael Holt was in a prison camp [Annotator's Note: Oflag 64 in Szubin, Poland] that the Germans decided to...
Marthe Cohn decided she and her family needed to leave Poitiers, France and cross into unoccupied territory after a...
[Annotator’s Note: After being captured in North Africa by Germans and sent to Italy,] Olin Pickens boarded an...
Judith Rothenberg [Annotator's Note: a Belgian Jewish child who escaped to the south of France with her parents and...
Micha Tomkiewicz and his family were living in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Because of his father's Polish Army...
Ted Winestone fled into the woods [Annotator's Note: after escaping from the ghetto in Dworzec, Poland, now Dvorets,...
Helias Doundoulakis [Annotator's Note: an American citizen living in Crete, Greece and working for the British Special...
The USS West Virginia (BB-48) was raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor. Archie Kelley was there during part of that...
A friend of Henry Langrehr's, Jim McMillen, had been beaten up badly by a German guard with a club. The SS [Annotator's...
Herman Pbert's mother helped him, and others escape [Annotator's Note: from a Nazi concentration camp in Italy]. His...
A typical day for Henry Schaller would start with a briefing at four o'clock in the morning. If the target was to be...
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts after a tape break with them discussing what to talk about next.] Erna...
The Japanese were treated wrongly and were put into concentration camps [Annotator's Note: forced relocation and...
Byron Herbert Meader was sent to Camp Shelby, Mississippi and assigned to Headquarters, 271st Infantry Regiment [...
Irvin C. Klimas and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Thompson (DD-627)] gave support to the landing forces around...
During the summer of 1939, John Ericson's mother wanted to take them to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. She had come over...
Hunt [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Captain George P. Hunt] saw Wilfred Hanson's [Annotator's Note: with Company K...
Winter started and around October or November [Annotator's Note: October or November 1944] and Irving Baum [Annotator's...
Norman Bussel left his final training base and took a train to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. He and the crew were pretty...
Ejnar Christiansen's family did not suffer anything due to the war since they lived in a pretty small village in...
Henry Langrehr had some near misses while evading recapture [Annotator's Note: after escaping from a prisoner of war...

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