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Soskin, Betty Prewar Life to Pearl Harbor
Betty Soskin was born in September 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. She was invited to be a panelist at The National WWII...
Light, Carl Prewar Life to Rifleman
Carl Light was born in a small town in southern Missouri and was inducted at Fort Leonard Wood [Annotator's Note: Fort...
Eads, Arthur Prewar Life to Seabee Training
Arthur L. Eads was born in Plainville, Kansas [Annotator's Note: in August 1920]. His father was a farmer, but then...
Wombacher, Delbert Prewar Life to the 4th Cavalry Regiment
Delbert Frank Wombacher was born in Lawrence, Nebraska on a farm [Annotator's Note: in October 1918]. He grew during...
Henry, Frederick Prewar Life to Tuskegee Institute
Frederick Henry was born in January 1923 in Chattanooga, Tennessee and raised in Detroit [Annotator's Note: Detroit,...
Carruth, John Prewar Life to VE-Day
John Carruth was born in February 1927 in Jefferson, Georgia. He was raised on a farm. As soon as the school bus...
Hughes, Lowell Prewar Life, the CMTC and Joining the 45th Infantry Division
Lowell Hughes was born in Poteau, Oklahoma in October 1919. He stayed there until he was 18 years old. He went to the...
Brown, Bernard Prewar Portland to Training in Texas
Bernard Brown was born in Portland, Oregon in 1924 and moved to Salem, Oregon with his family when he was 13 years old...
Stone, Edward Prewar Service Aboard the USS Pyro (AE-1)
Edward Stone was aboard the Pyro [Annotator's Note: USS Pyro (AE-1)] and found the ship had good cooks. That was...
Rinas, Bruno Prewar Service in the Philippines
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with the interviewer and Rinas talking about Rinas's wife.] Bruno S. Rinas moved to...
Gatlin, Carl Prewar to Army Life
Carl Robert Gatlin was born in January 1920 in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi. He grew up with two younger sisters in his...
Gilmore, Selwyn Prewar to Draft
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...
Bauer, Wynn Prewar to Drafted
Wynn Bauer was born Clay Center, Kansas in September 1923. He grew up on a farm. He went to a two-room school with...
Nickerson, Edward Prewar to England
Edward J. Nickerson, Jr. was born in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois] in July 1920. His father was a...
Reed, Raymond Prewar to Iceland
Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....
Silvia, Joseph Prewar to India
Joseph Silvia was born in April 1922 in Newport, Rhode Island. He was exposed to the military at age 12, by a soldier...
Taylor, Charles Prewar to Navy Life
Charles Taylor was born in December 1923 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Taylor recalls growing up during the Great...
Delaune, Lawrence Prewar to Overseas
Lawrence J. Delaune, Sr. was born in Patterson, Louisiana in September 1924. He grew up on his family's strawberry farm...
Jones, Robert Prewar to Pilot Training
Robert Jones was born in Mendon, Michigan and spent his teenage life working on a farm. When he graduated high school,...
Markwald, Ervin Prewar, Draft, and Deployment
Ervin Markwald served with the 77th Division [Annotator's Note: 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division] during...
Smith, Samuel Primary, Basic, and Advanced Flight Training
Samuel W. Smith was sent to Visalia, California for primary flight school. They flew PT-22 low-wing planes [Annotator’s...
Bell, Harry Prison and Liberation
When Harry Bell and the other prisoners arrived [Annotator's Note: at Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany] they were...
Sullivan, George Prison Camp Torture
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Peleliu.] Normally, the...
O'Rorke, James Prison Slave Labor
James Richard O'Rorke worked in the factory [Annotator's Note: in a steel mill in Ōsaka, Japan as a prisoner of war]...
Connelly, John Prisoner and Liberation
In the summer of 1944, John J. Connelly was captured by Germans after he bailed out of his plane and was transferred to...
Skardon, Ben Prisoner at Cabanatuan
Ben Skardon was first incarcerated at Camp O'Donnell [Annotator's Note: former American military reservation on Luzon,...
Crowley, Daniel Prisoner at Cabanatuan and Palawan
Daniel Crowley, now a prisoner of war, reached the Cabanatuan [Annotator's Notes: Cabanatuan, Philippines] prison camp...
Roslensky, Marvin Prisoner in Japan
Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] was taken [...
Butcher, Chester Prisoner Life
Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air...
Casey, Donald Prisoner March to Stalag VII-A
Donald E. Casey [Annotator’s Note: whose Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber was shot down over Hamburg, Germany...
Carder, Theodore Prisoner of War
Theodore Noel Carder and his platoon [Annotator's Note: in the 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division]...
Fitts, Charles Prisoner of War
Charles Fitts, Jr. and the other prisoners were taken to a bunker. There, they realized just how many of the men had...
Stovroff, Irwin Prisoner of War
Irwin Stovroff experienced interrogation by the Germans after his capture. The enemy thought the American airman knew...
Lichtenfeld, Seymour Prisoner of War
Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was stripped of his valuables after he was taken prisoner of war. [Annotator's Note:...
Borne, Edwin Prisoner of War
Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. first encountered Japanese assault troops soon after Devereux [Annotator's Note: then US Marine...
Charles, Howard Prisoner of War
Howard Robert Charles became a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: after the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30) in...
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