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[Annotators Note: David Dennis served as a radio operator in Company D, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st...
Baynham doesn't remember many details from his interrogation. He was accused of being a spy and was threatened with...
They got in to Yokohama and were put on a train to Fukuoka, or the island of Kyushu. They were put on trucks in Saebo [...
The 88's [Annotator's Note: German 88 millimeter artillery] started coming in at them around 5:00am [Annotator's note:...
[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...
On the 16th [Annotator’s Note: 16 May 1945 on Okinawa] Bailey moved out but got pinned down again and took cover in...
They were interrogated in Frankfurt. They were only supposed to tell them name, rank, and serial number. A German...
Everyone in the outfit had great respect for Gavin [Annotator’s Note: Major General James "Jumpin' Jim" Gavin,...
On trip after the winter weather started to move in, they were briefed to a 50 knot head wind. They were in formation....
Dan Baker and his men moved towards Munich with greater ease because they did not have winter weather to contend with...
John Luckadoo and the other aircrews began receiving heavy fire as soon as they reached the enemy coast. The flak was...
As they traveled through Germany [Annotator's Note: during his time spent as a prisoner of war (POW), Onesi remembers...
There was a small passageway that went all the way up the side of the ship to the front of the ship. It was lined with...
On 23 April [Annotators Note: 23 April 1945] Mancel Kirk and his fellow 168th Infantry Regiment GIs were taken by truck...
In September Henderson was on a flight to China as navigator. He was with a crew that had to bail out on the flight...
During the first attack the Germans walked toward Milosevich's position. No tanks were sent at them for fear that they...
John Weinart notes that the previous story was probably the closest he ever got to being killed. It was not an unusual...
The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...
After John Keema’s navigator Frank Delarmie [Annotator’s Note: unsure of spelling] was killed they were assigned a new...
Richard Cole heard that some of the aircraft had cameras on them but his was not one of them. The picture of Doolittle...
They had a couple of rainy days in April [Annotator's Note: April 1945] but the rains got heavy after Lazarick left. He...
When John Luckadoo was on his bomb run [Annotators Note: during the 8 October 1943 mission to Bremen] it was terribly...
[Annotators Note: There is dead air at the beginning of this segment. The segment actually begins at 1:04:45:500.] For...
During the breakout from the Anzio beachhead John Vessey was a forward observer with an infantry company. They were...
They had to break the monotony. They would see someone get beat and they would laugh about the way he hollered or the...
Once they [Annotators Note: Richard Cole, James Doolittle, and the crewmen aboard their B-25 which had just taken part...
Loevsky's destination during his long march was Stalag VIIA in Moosburg, Germany. Along the way to Moosburg they was...
There were balloons in the air and was some antiaircraft fire over Bangkok [Annotator’s Note: Thailand] but it was...
Freddie Ohr was treated to another huge dinner. The Korean man told him to come down every night around seven. Ohr...
Richard Greer was in the hospital when John Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor. Greer was supposed to have been in...
John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...
Sometime in the spring of 2004 [Annotator's Note: Myers means 1944] there was a Japanese, who Myers thought had been...
Lynn Compton knew the Germans were nearby while he and his men stayed in the area. Compton had to go to the listening...
The Japanese split the camp up again. Myers thinks that after the school teacher had been to the camp he said something...
Vejtasa doesn't know of anyone being lost during the attack. The farther away they got from the scene, the worse the...
Robert Hammond was sent to Great Lakes, Illinois in the dead of winter for boot camp. He was prepared for the cold, but...

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