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Lesniewski, Joseph From Basic Training to Jump School
Joseph Lesniewski went into the US Army Air Forces and was sent to California. He was in ten different camps while...
Synder, Harold From Biak to the Philippines
On Biak [Annotator's Note: Biak, West New Guinea], it would rain every day at about one o'clock for about ten minutes....
Kawamoto, Yukio From Bougainville to Luzon
[Annotator's Note: Yukio Kawamoto served in the Army as a Japanese interpreter with the 37th Infantry Division in the...
Keller, Richard From Camp Shelby to Fiji
Richard Keller had a good friend from Alabama who was a funny guy. He received different training than Keller had...
Leibold, William From Destroyer-Mine Layers to Submarines
Richard O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard H. "Dick" O'Kane] gave William Leibold a nice 35mm...
Leopold, Vernon From England to Belgium
Vernon Leopold was trained as a radio operator at Camp Wolters, Texas then went into the ASTP, Army Specialized...
Carlson, Clarence From England to France
While stationed in England [Annotator's Note: at Royal Air Force Boxted, Colchester, England], Clarence Carlson would...
Nussenbaum, Seymour From England to France
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Seymour Nussenbaum and his outfit [Annotator's...
Spaulding, Arthur From Enlistment to France
Arthur Spaulding decided to enlist in the Army because his brother was in the V-12 unit [Annotator's Note: V-12 US Navy...
Brien, Russel From Flight School to Italy
Russell Brien was 16 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor but he does not know exactly where he was. He...
Viera, Conrad From Fort Rucker to Occupied Japan
[Annotator's Note: Birds and muffled conversation can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] After...
Manasse, Fred From France into Spain
In 1943, Fred Manasse saw some of the older Jewish children gathered up by the French for transport to a detention camp...
Jaccarino, Richard From Long Island to Leyte
Soon after being drafted into the Army, Richard Jaccarino was sent to Camp Upton at the end of Long Island, New York...
McNeely, Walter From Minnesota to France
Walter McNeely was born in St. Paul, Minnesota [Annotator’s Note: in April 1927]. During the Great Depression [...
Wichterich, George From Normandy to the Bulge
[Annotators Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking George Wichterich about the hedgerow fighting in...
Morris, Joe From Okinawa to China
Joe Morris and his unit [Annotator's Note: 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were part of the...
Hull, Lester From Oran to Anzio
Lester Hull and his unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 976th Field Artillery Battalion] spent several months in North...
Rooney, Andrew From Paris to China
Andrew A. Rooney [Annotator's Note: as a correspondent for the Stars and Stripes, American military newspaper] entered...
Jackson, Arthur From Pavuvu to Peleliu
Arthur Jackson was in the hospital in Noumea, New Caledonia for three or four weeks before being shipped back to the...
Whitten, Sumner From Pearl Harbor to Midway
Sumner Whitten arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, west of Honolulu. The mess from the attack on Pearl Harbor was...
Aust, Abner From Picking Cotton to Flying Fighters
Abner Aust was born in Scooba, Mississippi. He took civilian pilot training in college. When he finished he went to...
Audler, Richard From Ponam to Manila
Richard Audler shipped out of the United States and steamed for to the island of Ponam, located off Manus Island [...
LaPorta, Edward From Reggio di Calabria to Stalag III-B
Edward LaPorta does not recall the date he was captured at Kasserine Pass in North Africa. He believes that the reason...
Gatlin, Carl From Rome to France
[Annotator's Note: An off-camera male interjects throughout this clip.] Carl Robert Gatlin and his regiment [Annotator'...
Fatora, Jerome From Saint-Nazaire to the Saar River
The Allied forces had been unsuccessful in their bombing of the submarine bases at Lorient and Saint-Nazaire, and...
Jones, Johnnie From South Carolina to Omaha Beach
Johnnie A. Jones Senior was made a warrant officer [Annotator's Note: officers above non-commissioned officers,...
Fienup, Victor From Stalag Luft III to Moosburg
Victor Fienup [Annotator's Note: an American prisoner of war] was taken to Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: in Sagan...
Beeghly, Donald From the Bulge to the Remagen Bridge
When Donald Beeghly’s unit [Annotator's Note: the 142nd Antiaircraft Artillery Gun Battalion (mobile)] arrived in...
Coleman, Harper From the Hedgerows to the Siegfried Line
[Annotator's Note: There is a tape break, and the clip starts with Harper Harvey Coleman mid-sentence.] An 88 [...
Hadjinian, Samuel From the Philippines to Japan
Samuel Hadjinian was sent to Manila, the Philippines to join the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion after being drafted...
Rosendahl, Robert From the Philippines to Manchuria
Robert Rosendahl got out of Camp O'Donnell and went on a detail north of a town called Cabanatuan where he was put to...
Cole, John From the Philippines to Okinawa
After Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] was secured [Annotator's Note: on 14 January 1945], John H. Cole...
Stricklan, Mary From the WACs to the Pentagon
Mary R. Stricklan's uniform [Annotator's Note: in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) then Women's Army Corps (WAC...
Garbo, William From War Dogs to Machine Guns
The Battle of the Driniumor River ended in August of 1944 after the Japanese 18th Army had been completely decimated....
Rogers, John Frozen Roads, Chow and Carrying a Tommy Gun
John Rogers recalls that the area they were operating in and out of was Modave, Belgium. Modave was where they lost the...
Lovell, James Functioning in Space
Recounting the story behind his call sign, James Lovell said that while undergoing desert survival training near Reno,...

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