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Helen Gagel had no lasting effects from the war. Her most memorable experience was when she was going into actual war....
George Joseph Sullivan says a lot of amusing things happened outside of stealing from the Japanese. [Annotator's Note:...
Simon Braitman cried when he was liberated [Annotator’s Note: by the 71st Infantry Division on 4 May 1945]. He could...
Chafer Honea was discharged at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It was late at night and there was a soldier at Fort Bragg...
George Hardy came back [Annotator's Note: From Vietnam] in the spring of 1971. He had a physical and failed so he lost...
[Annotator's Note: David Harvey was discharged from the Navy in 1946. He then joined the Army for the Korean War on 1...
Benjamin Schleider was impressed by seeing men in high places who had no hesitancy about talking to someone higher in...
Samson Alexander's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when Harry Truman [Annotator's Note: Harry S. Truman,...
Charles Walker was in the Mediterranean Sea and the Soviets [Annotator's Note: Soviet Navy] had a fleet of its own...
[Annotator's Note: Dr. Robert Beynon was serving aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) when it survived an attack by a...
George R. Bolin could only go out to the shipyard [Annotator's Note: Brown Shipbuilding Company in Houston, Texas] on a...
Donald Lindquist was an officer in the US Merchant Marine. After the war, he went to school for Business Administration...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Joseph Alter what the trip overseas aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth was like.]...
When Alfred Dearman would come on duty for the morning shift as a jailer, the midnight shift would have had the...
Angelo Ciotta wanted to be a Marine because he knew their history and he had seen the movie "Wake Island" twice. He saw...
Lowell Hughes was stationed at Camp Barkeley near Abilene, Texas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. A supply...
Captain Hunt [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Captain George P. Hunt] was no longer in command of K Company [...
George Wiswell learned how to dive in the Navy. Wiswell was given a sheet of commands for line pulls under water as...
The war started and 50 of Charles Wesley Borders' classmates went to Canada to join the RCAF [Annotator's Note: Royal...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Raymond Cauble if he recalls where he was when he heard the news of the...
Donald Dean Paynter came back, finished school with an engineering degree, and went to work for Shell Oil Company. He...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Wiswell what it was like when the war ended.] Thank goodness it was over...
Donald Dean Paynter always had problems with his heated suit and would be freezing. He would have to go on oxygen at 12...
Daniel Samuelson was a gunner on a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber. He loved the plane, but it had nothing for...
Seymour Reitman got an open furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] to England....
Joseph Lesniewski liked his M1 [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as the M1 Garand]. It...
DeQuindre McGlaun [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] got...
Clarence Carlson was only stationed at St. John in France [Annotator's Note: Beaumont Sur Oise Airfield, Beaumont Sur...
Leslie Freeman was not involved in his Division's [Annotator's Note: Freeman was a member of Headquarters Company, 2nd...
On Charles Kneflin's 11th or 12th mission, two crews each from Guam, Tinian, and Saipan [Annotator's Note: all in the...
Judith Rothenberg's [Annotator's Note: a Belgian Jewish child at the time of the war] recalls her father left them [...
Don Daniels became friends with men he served with. He only stayed in touch with three or four by exchanging Christmas...
[Annotator's Note: Malcolm Ernest was a prisoner of war at Camp O'Donnell on Luzon, Philippines.] Ernest was among a...
Marthe Cohn left school and became a modiste, or hat maker, with her sister in the center of Metz, France. Her sister...
Right after the attack [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Thomas W....
Moving off the beach at Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...

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