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In February or March 1943, Myers Bernard Rosenbloom went to Camp Pendleton[Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...
Clarence Carslon was sent to basic training in Tampa, Florida. From there he went to Lake Charles, Louisiana. He was...
Leo V. Strausbaugh was boarding a train, on his way overseas, worrying about the fact that his folks would not know...
James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....
Andrew Leblanc was shipped to the Philippines. He lived in a pup tent [Annotator's Note: also called a shelter-half,...
Bud Loring went from Santa Maria [Annotator's Note: Army Airfield, Santa Barbara County, California] to Colchester,...
In the summer of 1942, Dominick Frank Poliseno was inducted at Fort Niagara [Annotator's Note: near Youngstown, New...
Joseph Blouin went to basic training at the largest wooden hotel in the country [Annotator's Note: Belleview-Biltmore...
Arnold Debrick went to Camp Hood, Texas for basic training. He was used to hard work so basic training was not all that...
George Hardy went on leave after graduation [Annotator's Note: from aviation cadet training at Tuskegee Army Air Field...
Henry Schaller received his pilot's wings in 1944. After he graduated, he was a second lieutenant. He could not hear...
[Annotator's Note: Charles Childs was in aviation cadet training when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl...
Prior to being sent overseas, Robert Lewis Beilman and his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 242nd infantry...
Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...
Warren Sanford Moose was at the University of Oregon [Annotator's Note: in Eugene, Oregon] when Pearl Harbor was...
Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman in June 1944. His crew got along well together...
On Pavuvu Island [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu Island, Solomon Islands], a personnel officer told Wilfred Hanson [Annotator...
Upon arrival in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] in June 1945, Jacob Velfling, Jr. and the rest of his...
Joseph Lesniewski had no problems with his first jumps. He told his sister that when he made the jumps, he would take a...
Johnny Ngai did his basic training in Macon, Georgia around February [Annotator's Note: February 1942]. He trained with...
Jack Buckner was in Boise, Idaho when his aircrew was formed as part of the 347th Bombardment Squadron, 99th...
[Annotator's Note: Joyce Sherman completed Nurses training and enlisted in the Army on 1 June 1943.] It was wartime and...
Everything was rationed during the war. George Grugett's dad told him to go to the ration board and get gas stamps. He...
[Annotator's Note: William Sturman was assigned to USS Copahee (CVE-12) after Navy boot camp.] A CVE is an escort...
[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Rupp was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...
Leon Bass left from Boston [Annotator's Note: Boston, Massachusetts] and crossed the Atlantic [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer went to Mobile, Alabama to board his assigned ship - the Landing Ship, Tank USS LST-502...
Sam V. Abate left Camp Claiborne [Annotator's Note: in Rapides Parish, Louisiana] for Camp Kilmer, New Jersey [...
[Annotator's Note: Floyd Horne was trained as bombardier-navigator on the Martin B-26 Marauder medium bomber. His crew...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein does not remember...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks bomber pilot John Paul how he managed his crew.] The military is not a...
[Annotator’s Note: Louis Liberato went to Europe in January 1944.] They went over in a big convoy with the troops in...
Delbert Wombacher organized and trained the 922nd Ordnance Battalion [Annotator's Note: unable to identify] at Camp...
Now an Army Air Corps Pilot, Linwood S. Inscoe was shipped overseas to England and waited at an Army replacement depot...
During World War 2, Charles R. Brown was placed in the Headquarters Company, 66th Armored Infantry Battalion, 12th...

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