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There were 18 or 19 men on Thomas J. Blakey's plane [Annotator's Note: from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...
Dr. Sharon Estill Taylor's [Annotator's Note: whose father, US Army Air Forces First Lieutenant Shannon E. Estill, was...
Joseph Komito saw his parents for the last time on a train. The Nazis gave everyone in Komito's camp a postcard to send...
[Annotator's Note: James McEnery served in the USMC as a rifleman in Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st...
Wallace Hurley was discharged at San Antonio after returning to the United States. Men were given various strange...
James Wilson shows the helmet he had on [Annotator's Note: when he was shot while serving with Company G, 2nd Battalion...
William Leibold has been contacted numerous times by groups attempting to research various things. Leibold noted how...
[Annotator's Note: The video begins with William Leibold taking the interviewers through a book of photographs. The...
By the time John McGlohon arrived on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], the Japanese war effort was...
George Peto has kept numerous photographs and documents from and regarding the war and shared them with interviewer....
After Korea, Walter Bowsher served as the San Diego brig warden. In 1953, he was in charge of the escort section of men...
Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...
Barney Hajiro spent time in Nice, France and then in Michigan in hospitals recovering from his combat wounds. While in...
[Annotator’s Note: This video clip begins with James Nannini talking about a non-related topic.] Nannini returned to...
Victor Befera was a replacement for those stationed overseas, and those stationed with the most points [Annotator's...
Richard Nummer returned to the United States in July 1946 after being in Japan for nine months. While on the trip home...
George Hood returned home after the war. He flew in from the Pacific and then cross country. He had a little money and...
After the war, Leroy Fadem's ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-871] was in the first task group to enter Nagasaki harbor...
Robert Maxwell stayed in the military shortly after recuperating from his foot wound. [Annotator's Note: Maxwell...
Elmore Ruck used the G.I. Bill and attained a mechanical engineering degree after the war. He attends reunions but...
Russell Clay has some regrets that he did not serve more than six years in the Navy. He enjoyed his service and could...
Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States and joined his father in a one-bedroom apartment in Tucson [Annotator’s...
Basil Woolf was sitting in his living room when the telephone rang. It was a cryptic call from the Tvy Leumi. [...
Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry was glad to return home after the war. Adjustment was no problem as she obtained her...
Burton Johnson remembers when he heard of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's death. Harry Truman was not a surprise as...
James H. "Jim" Pritchard's unit [Annotator's Note: 28th Infantry Regiment, 5th Marine Division] was sent to Sasebo on...
When the war in Europe ended, Herbert Auerbach found out there was a point system set up to determine who went home and...
Lawson Tracy Winslow, Junior decided to use the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...
Richard Graff's sister, a nurse, started working in a hospital in California after the war. After a weekend together,...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hum throughout the interview.] Charles William "Tom" Clark was near Vipiteno [...
James "Jim" Tubach was discharged at Fort Lewis, Washington and returned to Falls City, Nebraska. His family only knew...
In 1949, Louis R. Lepore joined a local tank unit that was later sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to...
World War 2 made a good Christian out of Frank Kern. When he got back home, he felt taken care of, was kept busy by the...
Clifford Albert Hahn was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when he heard about the dropping of the atomic...
Vernon Micheel met his future wife in June 1943 in Wildwood, New Jersey. They were married in October 1946. Micheel...
Alois Kopp returned from the war in a mood to celebrate. He ate and drank far too much and was advised by his father to...

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