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After the war, Robert Boeke adjusted back to civilian life easily. He was anxious to start a job. He wanted to go back...
Mark Rubin recently had a meeting in his house of 25 to 30 people for the Holocaust Museum [Annotator's Note: United...
24 March 1945, Paul Wilson's unit [Annotator's Note: with Company A, 193rd Glider Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne...
John Laborde arrived home from his service in the Pacific Theater went back to law school. He feels it was a mistake...
When the war was over, Lora E. Daniel's job [Annotator's Note: at the Union Carbide Metallurgical Plant in Sheffield,...
After he left the Army [Annotator's Note: in 1947], Allen Ray Sibley took a test for his GED [Annotator's Note: acronym...
Leno E. Stone attended Washington State College [Annotator's Note: now Washington State University in Pullman...
After the war, Jim Stumpfa got Grace [Annotator's Note: a Navy girlfriend] a hotel room when she came to visit [...
Robert Martin went to upholstery school with the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment...
Earl Angel returned to the United States in November 1945. His infant daughter had trouble sleeping at night until the...
Hans Siverts thought he would be going to the Pacific. They were pulling back and shutting down the hospital [Annotator...
Stanley Berman [Annotator's Note: with the 8th Air Force] was responsible for loading bombs and ammunition onto their...
Vernon Brantley had communicated with his wife via V-mail [Annotator's Note: Victory Mail; postal system put into place...
After the war, Richard H. Kerr enlisted into the regular Navy and remained in service for 30 years. His first...
After the war, Gene R. Jerabek moved to Julian [Annotator's Note: Julian, Illinois]. Her husband's work saved his job...
Everett Hyland's wounds still bother him. He had a nerve check done on him in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego,...
Morton William Werner returned to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California] and then took a train to...
Roberta Randolph "Randy" Tidmore was discharged in August 1946 as a sergeant. She used the G.I. Bill twice. She went to...
Joel Varner had no desire to stay in the Army Air Forces. He wanted an education. He went right back to college. He got...
Arthur Smith was discharged in May 1946 at Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago,...
John Caudle returned to work at the company he worked at before the war. It was a department store. He then went into a...
Reverend Doctor Lamar Edward Smith was stationed in the desert [Annotator's Note: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake...
Charles Poston had been working with Westinghouse [Annotator's Note: Westinghouse Electric Corporation] for six years,...
Louise Settles had to leave the service once she was married. She knew that would happen. Her husband was to leave 20...
[Annotator's Note: Edward Kissam returned from the war and had a lot of family problems to deal with.]. Kissam did use...
There was a lot of Uncle Sam [Annotator's Note: Uncle Sam; a common national personification of the federal government...
Jack Vandervort was discharged in Texas where he had also been drafted. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks...
Eugene T. Leavy was discharged in October 1947. With the Status of Forces Agreement of June 1947, Leavy was able to...
Willie Roy Hebert had no trouble adjusting to civilian life. He was in the ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer...
Ellis Whaley was discharged as a Staff Sergeant. He did not sign up for Reserve time and it was not offered. He wanted...
Harold Luers joined the Army Reserve following his discharge after World War 2. He was running a grocery store and...
Marvin Raymond Edwards returned to the United States around October 1946 via a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip Irwin Medway looks at photographs, mostly off-camera, and reads statistics from...
Orville Carroll is glad he was not in combat. Two of his brothers were in the armed services as well, in Germany, but...
Robert Jagers used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...
George Colburn used the G.I. Bill to attend the Franklin Institute of Boston [Annotator's Note: Benjamin Franklin...

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