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Wainwright, James The Green Project
James Eyre Wainwright [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in the 326th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd Bombardment Group...
Scales, James The Korean War
The Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 through 1953] broke out in June 1950 and James Shelton Scales did not realize he...
Burkle, Henry The Korean War
Henry Burkle was in charge of periodic maintenance [Annotator’s Note: referring to his service during the Korean War,...
Kinney, Gabriel The Last Year of the War
On 10 November [Annotator's Note: 10 November 1944], Gabriel Kinney was sent back to the airport [Annotator's Note: at...
Ram, Walter The Long March and Liberation
Walter Ram and the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] who could walk were marched out of Stalag XVII as the...
Baker, Sterling The Pacific and Discharge
Sterling Baker was transferred out in the country to a Navy ammunition dump as a guard [Annotator's Note: near...
Pettis, Merle The Pacific and Returning Home
After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was sent to Oregon. They did not get...
Russo, James The Philippines, Being Injured, Going Home and College
James Russo deployed to the Philippines as a forward observer pilot. [Annotator's Note: Russo deployed with the 596th...
Cahoon, Robert The Philippines, War's End, and Going Home
Robert Cahoon briefly stayed on Biak in the Netherlands East Indies [Annotator's Note: in May 1944, Cahoon left New...
Lopez, Lionel The Points System
Lionel Lopez did not lose any POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. They got paid for their work on the...
Walter, Robert The SS, chaplains, and postwar career
[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
Hagans, Benjamin The United States
Benjamin Hagans remembers the officers’ mess had a menu. Hagans was with his brother, Bill, for three weeks. Then they...
Luers, Harold The War Ends
Harold Luers traveled through Europe during World War 2 [Annotator's Note: with the Regimental Headquarters, 347th...
Beard, Oral The War Ends
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...
Eleser, Carey The War Ends
Carey Eleser turned 21 on 5 August 1945 and went into a bar to get a beer. On 6 August the atomic bomb was dropped and...
Luce, Dwain The War Ends
Dwain Luce did not have to wait long to go home. When the war was over, each country sent their finest Divisions to...
Reilly, Joseph The War Ends
Joseph Dean Reilly [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...
Goodwin, Hersey The War Ends
When Hersey Goodwin was discharged, it was after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...
Jagers, Robert The War Ends
Robert Jagers' orders were to report to Columbia University [Annotator's Note: Columbia University in New York, New...
Moore, Calvin The War Ends
Calvin Moore was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] when the Japanese surrendered. They were running bets...
Schaller, Henry The War Ends
Henry Schaller's bomber [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 FLying Fortress heavy bomber] flew at 23,000 feet. It was 33...
Sutcliffe, Albert The War Ends
Albert G. Sutcliffe was taken from the Battle of Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26...
Doroff, Lorraine The War Ends
When the war ended, Lorraine Doroff [Annotator's Note: while serving in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...
Elliott, Calvin The War Ends
[Annotator's Note: Calvin Elliott consults some notes to see if he left anything out of his story.] Calvin Elliott was...
Zilliacus, Patrick The War Ends
Patrick Zilliacus corresponded with his family. It was censored twice but he corresponded throughout the war with his...
Klenoski, Richard The War Ends
[Annotator's Note: After his bomber crashed, Richard Klenoski was in a rest home in England when the Germans...
Thompson, Thomas The War Ends
Thomas D. Thompson was in the Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Lingayen Gulf, Philippines] aboard a PC [Annotator's...
Brien, Russel The War Ends
Russell Brien left Italy in May after the war in Europe had finished. He ended up in Bangor, Maine. He was supposed to...
Skare, Theodore The War Ends
After leaving Morotai, Theodore Skare and his unit [Annotator's Note: 209th Malaria Survey Unit] went to Clark Field,...
Bridger, Harley The War Ends
Harley Bridger's original crew stayed together the entire war except for the bombardier. He was a young, Jewish boy...
Richard, Joseph The War Ends
After the invasion of Okinawa, Japan and the dropping of the atomic bombs, Joseph Richard was eligible for discharge,...
O'Hara, Richard The War Ends
Richard O'Hara was pissed off that he was not going home when the war ended. His wife, who was his high school...
Neste, Norman A. The War Ends and Going Home
After he was wounded, Norman Neste spent a few weeks in France. He was in England when the war ended May 1945. He had...
Gorman, Ted The War Ends and Postwar Service
[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...
Scholl, Richard The War Ends or Does It?
Richard Scholl was sent back to the United States while his unit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 158th...
Bederson, Benjamin Theodore Hall and David Greenglass
While he was at Los Alamos, New Mexico, Benjamin Bederson knew both Ted Hall [Annotator's Note: Theodore "Ted" Hall was...

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