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[Annotator's Note: The film crew does some technical work with different camera positions and the audio picks up mid...
Coleen Landry remembers when her parents were told that her brother Reed was missing in action. It took about a month...
Gerald Abbenhaus returned to the United States in July 1946. It was good that he was not able to come back right away...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Wallace Yip, Sr. what it felt like to hear the news of the Japanese attack on...
Vaughn Whitworth remembers celebrating V-J Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He felt that...
On Christmas Day 1943 [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1943], Norman Raner was transferred to a little airfield. Mark...
Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] heard a man...
The Japanese at that time [Annotator's Note: on Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Papau New Guinea] were Paris Tognoli's...
Henry Lederer says the crosshair gun sight they used was horse and buggy compared to what they have today. They knew...
Donald Evans and his unit [Annotator's Note: 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division] were doing some...
While on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1 April to 22 June 1945; Okinawa, Japan], Kenneth...
[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] The Ledo Road [Annotator's Note: overland...
Warren Nolan was aboard the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) when it was hit by two kamikaze aircraft on 11 May 1945. The deck...
Jack H. Bleuler served with the 822nd Bombardment Squadron, 38th Bombardment Group, 5th Air Force during the war in the...
Stephen Ananian says that the idea that if the Germans had built their jet fighters sooner in the war, it would have...
In November 1942, Sam Goldstein was drafted and sent to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: Fort Dx, New Jersey] for induction...
Jacques Brewster Smith's company commander [Annotator's Note: of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry...
When Herman Pbert joined the resistance [Annotator's Note: Italian resistance movement, an umbrella term for the...
Roy Stewart and his unit [Annotator's Note: in the 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division] entered the "amphitheater...
Cosmo Uttero was in Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] a few weeks ago [Annotator's Note: at the time of...
Henry Langrehr was at the La Fiere bridge [Annotator's Note: La Fiere, France] when a German tank came down the...
Daniel Szafran was already a member of the Palmach [Annotator's Note: "storm troops," the elite force of the Haganah,...
Lloyd Dendy and his brother enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves. When the Korean War broke out they were called back...
[Annotator's Note: John K. Ward jumped into France with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division...
Alfred Dietrick [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] went...
Thomas Francis Schicker and the men [Annotator's Note: of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...
One morning for breakfast, the commander told Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st...
After receiving an unexpected promotion, J.D. Graddy had a lot to think about on the journey overseas to England. After...
Robert Clifford Pryor [Annotator's Note: with the 92nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Armored Division]...
William S. Meyers, Jr. befriended a guy, named William Mafree [Annotator’s Note: phonetic spelling], while he was at...
At Anzio [Annotator's Note: Anzio, Italy], Melbourne Sanford Courtney was assigned to the 45th Infantry Division. He...
[Annotator's Note: Roswell Weil served in the Army as an officer in the Quartermaster Corps and was called to active...
The Filipino people were great, just like any American doing the same thing. They were forced to be in a war. When Earl...
Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] was on the airstrip on the second day [...
Richard "Dick" Schneider became a spare tail gunner after the loss of his former crew mates. It was not his preference...
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...

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