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Walter Sapp had been in his foxhole for eight days. He could not stand or walk. Two men lifted him out and he woke up...
In February [Annotator's Note: 5 February 1945], Daniel Farley and the rest of the 5th Ranger Battalion got word to...
Wim de Jonge accompanied an officer to Jakarta. They traveled alone in a jeep through the mountains without convoy...
Carl Koone was in the Army Air Corps for another year after his return to the United States. He spent the winter [...
When James Shelton Scales was promoted to captain and given his own company [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion...
Robert Maxwell was transferred to the hospital in Naples, Italy. He learned about the extent of his wounds there. [...
Monroe Scherer had lost a year of studies due to illness as a child. When he turned 18, he was still in high school. He...
Jimmy Doi spent his first day in the internment camp [Annotator's Note: Doi was interned at the Gila River Relocation...
After landing at Normandy beach for the D-Day Invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...
Harry A. Donovan received the Purple Heart [Annotator's Note: a Purple Heart Medal is award bestowed upon a United...
Prior to Operation Market Garden [Annotator's Note: Operation Market Garden, 17 to 25 September 1944, Netherlands],...
Robert Ledford wanted to join the Army because he wanted to be on the ground fighting the enemy. When he heard the...
The Germans were good fighters, according to Harry Koukos, and they were ruthless, cruel and brutal. He recalled going...
Samuel Jenkins stayed in touch with some of the men he met during the war. He kept in touch with Carlos Fernandez...
Robert Maxwell was laying communications wiring on the left side of a road at Besançon, France when he discovered that...
[Annotator's Note: There is a break in the video then the video starts while Alfred Pierse Murphy is mid-sentence.] He...
Edward Nacey flew a lot of missions to bomb bridges, railroad yards, and marshaling yards. Most of his missions were...
Paul James Grubb experienced his worse raid over Vienna [Annotator's Note: Vienna, Austria]. His only wound resulted...
Robert "Bob" Lowry went to Great Lakes [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes, North Chicago, Illinois] for boot...
[Annotators Note: William Guarnere was a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...
Neil Cox could hear a guy screaming out on the battlefield. They were firing their rifles at the Germans. The young man...
In November [Annotator's Note: November 1944], Kenneth H. Bailey's outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters...
Glenn Roysdon last saw his brother, Dale, in 1941 or 1942 when he brought his car home before he was shipped overseas [...
Elmo Espree's troop ship sailed from Australia for the Bay of Bengal in India. In India, Espree went through the Ganges...
[Annotator’s Note: The interview is outside, so there is a lot of background noise throughout this clip.] Everett Pope...
John S. Johnson stood with his hands in the air as the Japanese searched his pockets. He had no water or food for a day...
The lieutenant asked John M. Roberts what he thought they should do and Roberts suggested that they surrender since...
That same day, Robert Powers [Annotator's Note: Powers asks for the helmet he wore the day he was shot] was on top of...
Robert J. Hutchings was assigned as a stenographer under the command of General Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General...
Frank R. Burnside [Annotator's Note: as a pilot in India with the 1st Air Transport Squadron (Mobile), 20th Air Force...
Theodore Pavlovich compares the battles on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with those in...
James Wilson left Peleliu [Annotator's Note: after the Battle of Peleliu, September to November 1944, Peleliu, Palau]...
Walter Bowsher made two separate cemeteries because he had to bury Russians. [Annotator's Note: Bowsher was assigned to...
George Peto and the men of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines had a few days of rest and got new guns then moved out...
Walter Halloran was often in combat. During the Battle of the Bulge, he was with an outfit trying to recapture a town...

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