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Frederick Henry's [Annotator's Note: a Military Police officer in the US Army, stationed at Tuskegee, Alabama] job...
[Annotator's Note: Geraldine Nyman was a member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, and transported...
[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin joined the Army in Columbus, Ohio in November 1942.] Kneflin was sent to Fort Sill,...
Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...
Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...
Peter Hirschmann was sent to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey]...
Meda Royce Hall attended Aviation Ordnance School in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia], and graduated in...
Edwin Lamm was assigned to the Air Transport Command at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base [Annotator's Note: now Travis...
Carl Marca was a mail censor for the Army in the Pacific Theater of Operations. Sending home prohibited items and...
Thomas Creekmore did what they told him [Annotator's Note: when Creekmore was drafted January 1943]. He told his wife...
After completing basic training, Jack H. Bleuler was sent to Texas A...
While recovering from an ear infection [Annotator's Note: in the hospital at Fort Bragg, North Carolina], Matthew...
Adolph Edward Asher's [Annotator's Note: with the 45th Infantry Division] ship was sunk by a U-boat [Annotator's Note:...
Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores read that the brunt of the manpower in World War 2 came from the high school classes of...
Lionel Baxter was trained to handle ammunition [Annotator's Note: as part of a gun crew in Battery A, 941st Field...
Alfred Dietrick was federalized [Annotator's Note: from the Texas Army National Guard to the 36th Infantry Division] on...
Because Mary Cummings [Annotator's Note: in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval...
In 1944,Vernon Schmidt began his military training with a cannon company on the 105mm howitzer [Annotator's Note: M2A1...
Paul Lawrence did not know how many people were on the base where he was stationed [Annotator's Note: at Milne Bay, New...
They [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division] went into Mindanao [...
As the Germans retreated, they laid mines along the roads. John Kerner put sandbags on the floors of the jeeps. They...
Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...
[Annotator's Note: Floyd Stahl served in the Navy as a storekeeper aboard the minesweeper USS Sway (AM-120).] Going...
Carl Beck does not know exactly where he parachuted into on his way to Normandy, France [Annotator's Note: in the early...
[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski served in the Army as a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute...
[Annotator's Note: Audio is not good throughout this segment.] Marvin Raymond Graham says the German fighter pilots...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses to change tapes.] John Stanley Lee Swarts and his crew dropped bombs over...
Edgar A. Grabhorn's group [Annotator's Note: 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force]...
[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin was a tail gunner on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber in the 53rd...
Norman Bussel’s first mission was to Brunswick (Braunschweig), Germany. He was anxious as he had no idea what to expect...
eQuindre McGlaun [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] was...
[Annotator's Note: All of the locations listed in this clip are in the Philippines.] Robert Prince remembers New Year's...
Frank Dolsen, volunteered for the Army Air Corps, and trained in Boise, Idaho with his crew [Annotator's Note: 349th...
Robert Leroy Shirkey and his unit's [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 158th Regimental Combat Team] first...
Philemon Andrews Saint Amant was told to not speak about the OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services; pre-...
DeQuindre McGlaun [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force]...

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