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Robert Guitard was in Florence [Annotator's Note: Florence, Italy] on Christmas Eve [Annotator's Note: 24 December 1945...
Bernard Friedenberg and his unit [Annotator's Note: Medical Detachment, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st...
Robert J. "Bob" Goebel says the P-39 [Annotator's Note: Bell P-39 Airacobra fighter aircraft] had a bad reputation. It...
Robert J. "Bob" Goebel and his group [Annotator's Note: 308th Fighter Squadron, 31st Fighter Group, 12th Air Force]...
Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. is sure the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] kept planes...
John Symons started out with P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft]. Chennault [Annotator's...
[Annotator's Note: Abner Aust was a flight instructor in Fort Myers, Florida in 1943.] They started flying the P-40N [...
On Raymond Birdsall's [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific]...
Robert Savage was assigned as the radio man on the USS Springfield (CL-66), which received orders to escort a heavy...
Judith Rothenberg [Annotator's Note: a Belgian Jewish child who had escaped to the south of France and then Barcelona,...
Micha Tomkiewicz was on a train from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Theresienstadt [Annotator's Note: a...
Richard Scholl was in basic training at Camp Wolters, Texas. Training was not bad. It was bad doing jungle training in...
Going across the Pacific [Annotator's Note: Pacific Ocean] to the Philippines, Kenneth Raymond Goodwin stopped in Guam...
There were 18 or 19 men on Thomas J. Blakey's plane [Annotator's Note: from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...
John Steven Getway [Annotator's Note: a paratrooper with the 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, attached to the 504th...
[Annotator's Note: Henry Langrehr says he landed on a greenhouse in Sainte-Mère-Église, France during the Normandy...
In paratrooper training, John Mikus, Jr. was trained as infantry. They had special weapons. In boot camp, they used the...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley why he chose to be a paratrooper.] Billingsley grew up a poor...
Mark Rubin moved to Bratislava, Czechoslovakia after being liberated from Terezin [Annotator's Note: Theresienstadt...
Florence MacCallum [Annotator’s Note: a citizen of England working for the U.S. Army Joint Chiefs of Staff in London,...
Judith Rothenberg [Annotator's Note: a Belgian Jewish child at the time of the war] arrived in Paris [Annotator's Note...
During Operation Varsity [Annotator's Note: Operation Varsity, 24 March 1945, Wesel, Germany], the glider pilots of one...
John T. Fallon had to wait to go home. He had enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was devised based on a...
George Mitchell wanted to be in the Coast Artillery, but that unit was deleted, and he was drifting from job to job. He...
When John Morrow was not flying missions, he looked forward to getting 48 hour passes. He would go into London, England...
In his advanced training, Guy Stern had to interrogate prisoners. They were taught four or five methods and were given...
Leon J. Neiman met the native populations of Tinian [Annotator's Note: Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands] numerous times...
[Annotator's Note: Lawrence J. Delaune, Sr. served with the 25th Reconnaissance Troop (Mechanized), 25th Infantry...
Richard Edward Gile was a replacement in the 104th Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division in Europe during World War...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee pauses and speaks slowly throughout this segment.] William Ward Crawford arrived at...
After his first combat [Annotator's Note: during Operation Avalanche, 9 to 16 September 1943, Salerno, Italy], Alfred...
John T. Fallon patrolled every night and sometimes in the daytime. He took out one squad and sometimes less. The...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Larson what his personal feelings were towards US Army Lieutenant...
When William Larson got out of the Army [Annotator's Note: 1946], he did not intend on going back to Nebraska. His wife...
The intelligence group was on Thomas Francis Schicker's outfit's [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st...
James Wilson got off Cape Gloucester [Annotator's Note: Cape Gloucester, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, February 1944]...

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