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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Lillian Drucker if she remembers what she was doing when she heard about the...
Milton L. McMullen, Sr. heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...
James Fitzmorris grew up in Depression-era New Orleans, Louisiana in the Irish Channel neighborhood. They did not know...
[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] When the fighting in Walawbum [Annotator's Note...
They got rid of the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] on Truk [Annotator's Note: Truk...
Samson Alexander says the Japanese people [Annotator's Note: Japanese-Americans] were the backbone of Americanism...
Susan Magnuson Devoe was born in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] in June 1940. Her father worked as an...
The Americans had captured some bases on the east coast of China and the Army Air Forces were out in the boondocks [...
[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...
The war had ended but John Bellecci did not know. His company [Annotator’s Note: 1383rd Engineer Petroleum Distribution...
After the war was over, three envoys [Annotator's Note: from the government of Japan] were sent to Jack Dunlavy's ship...
Kenneth Raymond Goodwin was the historian for the unit [Annotator's Note: Goodwin was a member of the I...
[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...
Vernon Tweedt does not recall where he was when a trainload of people came through the town. They were packed like...
Kaare Allan Johnson's unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...
Walter Sapp never personally saw a German tank in combat. He could hear them. At the Remagen Bridge [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: David Cawley, a gunner with Bombing Squadron 10 (VB-10) aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6), is very...
Margaret Brewer Henry's husband, John [Annotator's Note: John R. Henry, war correspondent for International News...
Robert Payne's father was a flyer in World War 1. He had his own biplane after the war, and they would fly together....
Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. grew up in a community where he heard a lot of different languages. His father was a native of...
Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. knew nothing of the Bloody Hundredth [Annotator's Note: nickname for the 100th Bombardment...
Robert Stoops reported to Fort Sam Houston [Annotator's Note: San Antonio, Texas] for one month and then went to Camp...
George Colburn shipped out on the USS Rochambeau (AP-63), which was the same ship that Jack Kennedy [Annotator’s Note:...
The 45th [Annotator's Note: 45th Infantry Division] got beat up in some conflict, and several men from the 103rd [...
Harley Bridger's crew was sent to Mitchell Field on Long Island, New York. They were assigned a new airplane and they...
Robert G. Aldous flew from Canton Island [Annotator's Note: Canton Island, Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati] to...
Debra Stern wanted to do her part to help win the war America but did not want to have a military job sitting behind a...
Bill Connelly was born in January 1925 in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He had a half-...
Anna McCalla Noren was working as a dietician nurse in late 1941 in nursing school. She learned about the Japanese...
William L. Snow was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1924, the middle child of three boys born to a father who owned a...
Charles Childs knew the Berlin Airlift [Annotator's Note: Western Allies' operation to supply the blockaded city of...
Marthe Cohn was able to make a living until she joined the Army [Annotator's Note: First French Army in November 1944...
Nicole Sabbag Spangenberg's stepfather constantly listened to the radio to glean info on how the war was going outside...
By 17, Herman Pbert was a construction engineer [Annotator's Note: in Piedicavallo, Italy]. In the meantime, the war...
Rudolph C. Miller liked the Marines. He was a sucker for the uniform, and he liked it a lot. They were sharp and he...
A neighbor of John Scott Campbell's had gone to sea. He would come home and tell sea stories and that sounded good....

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