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Lloyd Geist contributes his military and career success to his basic flying instructor, who taught him to feel the...
Returning from overseas where he had been in charge of Air Force maintenance instructors, Eben Smith recaps...
Henry Heim was not bothered by the transition of the Army Air Corps. He fought in other countries because his country...
Wesley Fronk would have liked to have stayed in the service longer. When he got stationed in Shanghai [Annotator's Note...
Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...
The only negative thing Frederick Amore heard about the American warfare in the Pacific was when "they used that bomb...
During his service in England, Marvin Raymond Graham dated a young lady named Pat who he had met while on furlough [...
[Annotator's Note: Edward Nickerson came home after Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945. The interviewer asks him if he...
Erico J. Catalano did not take advantage of the G.I. Bill. He went to work in a slipper factory in Florida with his...
After D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Bernard Knese had a 30-...
Clyde Barnhart [Annotator's Note: a mechanic with the 883rd Bombardment Squadron, 500th Bombardment Group, 20th Air...
[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp used the G.I. Bill to go to...
Robert "Bob” Ruiz [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] managed a plant after the...
Linwood S. Inscoe was in Memphis, Tennessee on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He...
Bernard Peters lost his hearing completely in one ear so he had to get out of the service. He went to work for a...
After leaving the Air Force, Hersey Goodwin went back to get his master's degree. He returned to his hometown [...
Dave Fleischer had a friend with whom he went to enlist. His friend went into the Navy, but Fleischer wanted to enlist...
Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] was on the island of Luzon [...
The war in the Pacific was over in August 1945. Donald Dean Paynter got out of the service that December. He had...
Leo Denault was discharged on 10 March 1946. He came back on a troop carrier ship. It took seven days. It was awful. He...
Louis Cardenas remembers they slept on boards. They had sacks and they put hay in them. They were not suffering. They...
Henry Heim worried about his friends’ lives and the guys who were left over there. When he came home, he was assigned...
Robert Jones was on the Air Force All-star Football team and played in Nice, France on New Year's Day [Annotator's Note...
William Smith went back to college and it was the hardest thing he ever did. When arriving home after being overseas,...
After returning to the United States, David K. Hayward was sent to Santa Monica, California to be reassigned. He was...
Walter Atwood took a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] home. One night, the...
After the war, Revis Haslett and his dad bought a grocery store but he wished he had gone to school instead. The store...
Timothy Mahoney kept up with his friends for some time after the war. One of his friends became a doctor. Another man...
Ralph Gay went into the construction business when he returned home. He built houses. He used the G.I. Bill [Annotator'...
Gene M. Cushman was a safety manager as a lieutenant colonel in Spain where he oversaw a fleet of B-58s [Annotator’s...
After the Japanese surrendered, George Beaugh was given orders to report to Coffeeville, Indiana. He and his wife could...
Frank R. Burnside manages a farm and plantation as his father did, and his son will after him. He did not have trouble...
Alfiero Giamberardino started screaming about the war's end when they heard about it on the radio. The British were on...
The military taught Richard Baile discipline. It also gave him another education. The combination of his college...

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