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Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was shipped...
John Mikus, Jr. took a ship zig-zagging [Annotator's Note: a naval anti-submarine maneuver] across [Annotator's Note:...
Clayton Hall got to New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: New Caledonia, Oceania] and the ship lost a prop [Annotator's Note...
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan shipped out of San Diego, California to New Caledonia aboard the USS...
Norman Neste and the 75th Infantry Division [Annotator's Note: Neste was a member of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 289th...
Jacques Brewster Smith [Annotator's Note: with the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne Division] boarded a...
When Wallace McKay departed for New Guinea, he returned to Hollandia [Annotator's Note: Hollandia, New Guinea; now...
John Bellecci boarded a ship from California to Australia. The ship went alone in September 1943. It was a converted...
While her husband, Hyman, was deployed overseas in Europe during World War 2, Shirley Sandy Schulman found a job as a...
To Norman Raner, the enemy [Annotator's Note: the German Army forces he faced in the deserts of North Africa] was...
When Richard Willett was at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby, near Hattiesburg, Mississippi], he would go to...
Emile Engles' parents took care to tell their children that when dealing with the Germans, and particularly the Gestapo...
Lora E. Daniel knew what was going on with the war, but her life was so busy that she probably did not think about it...
Robert J. "Bob" Goebel's plane's [Annotator's Note: in the 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force]...
George Colburn called for a stretcher. One of the ones who brought the stretcher got hit. They put his friend,...
Walter Sapp was assigned to Company C, 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division as a rifleman. He took over the...
After returning home, Harold Roed [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division] went out in New York City...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] Taylor Howard was sent overseas [Annotation...
Louis J. Armentaro thinks that maybe he could have gotten someone killed, but he had to have his sense of decency....
Harold Paul [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division]...
[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland was hospitalized after being wounded on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) during the...
Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: a radio operator in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski joined his bomber crew in Casper, Wyoming in late 1944.] He was married on New Year...
Joseph Romano went to Germany after Italy. He was on guard duty there. He went to Le Havre, France from there. [...
William Fili had not been trained how to bail out of an aircraft. They had one bit of instruction. OSS [Annotator's...
The bombings of Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin was bombed 363 times between 1940 and 1945] were awful for Ingrid...
When readying for nuclear test, Paul Sparacino and the crew [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS...
Nelson Constant was just out there working. It was like being locked up in a room. The trees did not talk. They were...
Erwin Johnson was on the Tottori Maru hell ship [Annotator's Note: an unmarked ship with extremely inhumane living...
Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. had several good, non-combat-related flights [Annotator's Note: with the 351st Bombardment...
Leon Bass's mother always told him he did not need to use violence to solve a problem. His friends were tough guys....
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip Irwin Medway looks at photographs, mostly off-camera, and reads from articles...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Philip Schultz what the D-Day landings in Normandy, France on 6 June 1944...
Harold Paul [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division]...
Don Carter arrived in Falmouth, England, boarded a trained and went to Barry, Wales [Annotator's Note: Wales, England]...
[Annotator's Note: The video is out of focus and Leslie Cruise continuously refers to a book that he has off camera.]...

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