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[Annotator's Note: A portion of the video is cut out.] Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion...
Trinidad Ledesma was tired and had jungle worms, so he decided not to reenlist. He was at a hospital and quarantined...
Erico J. Catalano did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill. He went to work in a slipper factory in Florida with his...
[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...
Myers Bernard Rosenbloom figured God was very good to him in that he allowed him to go through the war and not even get...
After the war ended, Peggy Upham went back home [Annotator's Note: to Dallas, Texas]. There was no money for her to go...
The war in Japan had ended when Thomas Landrum returned home from Europe. They had dropped the bomb [Annotator's Note:...
After a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Bill Toledo [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp used the G.I. Bill to go to...
Nancy Lynch Castellano authored a book entitled "Looking Back at the WAVES: A Chronicle of the 90,000 Navy Women of...
Robert Erskine Hendrick did not find it too difficult to readjust to civilian life. He worked in the circulation...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] Harry Tennant was in the Naval...
Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] managed a plant after the...
After leaving the Air Force, Hersey Goodwin went back to get his master's degree. He returned to his hometown [...
Wallace Yip, Sr. returned to China and got married after the war. He brought his wife back in 1947. She did not speak...
Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...
Wallace McKay did have bad feelings towards the Japanese. He married a Canadian woman. He was concerned about the Nazis...
Alfons Robert Kleindienst returned to America by himself after World War 2 from Munich [Annotator's Note: Munich,...
James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....
Louis Andriano was discharged from the Navy in June 1946. He took advantage of the G.I. Bill to an extent. He went to a...
After the war, Harold Hauberg completed junior college in Tucson [Annotator's Note: Tucson, Arizona], earning his...
After the war, Frank J. Waldeck was married, and his wife became pregnant. Waldeck was in a hurry to get his college...
Marvin Sussman struggled with readjusting to civilian life and had trouble making plans for his future. He attended...
Monroe Scherer took advantage of the G.I Bill and went to NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University, New York, New...
Vernon Squire realized that if he was going to make a success of his life, he was going to need to go to college. He...
Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] was on the island of Luzon [...
The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...
After the war and separation from the US Army Air Forces, David Oreck did not return to college and decided to go New...
Robert Jones was on the Air Force All-star Football team and played in Nice, France on New Year's Day [Annotator's Note...
William Smith went back to college and it was the hardest thing he ever did. When arriving home after being overseas,...
After returning to the United States, David K. Hayward was sent to Santa Monica, California to be reassigned. He was...
Walter Atwood took a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] home. One night, the...
John Kerner was in London, England for about ten days. He was on leave and only had to report back when the ship was to...
Johnny Ngai says the trouble is that they [Annotator's Note: the Veterans Administration or VA] do not help you if you...
James Anthony Saint Julien, Senior [Annotator's Note: deployed to the Philippines with the 766th Engineer Dump Truck...
Jacklyn Lucas likes the life he is living. He liked being in the military. He has done well for himself and has a good...

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