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Cardenas, Louis Prewar Life
Louis Cardenas was born in April 1919 in San Antonio, Texas. His father had a good job in the civil service. He was not...
Jostad, Glen POW Ingenuity
Glen Jostad learned while being a prisoner of the Germans that everything is valuable. He managed to create a trap for...
Smith, Samuel Hamburg Missions
Samuel W. Smith got the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] up to top speed and buzzed...
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 3
Baum recalls an event that took place at the Maginot Line. Harold Cohen had just taken over the battalion. He argued...
Dabney, William G. The end of the war and attempted deployment to the Pacific
William Dabney notes that the equipment kept coming in [Annotators Note: across Omaha Beach in the days following the 6...
Kofsky, Bernard War's End
Bernard Kofsky's [Annotator's Note: with the 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] worst mission was in Schweinfurt [...
Leopold, Vernon Anti-Semitism
For Vernon Leopold, being from a Jewish background was unpleasant in Germany as there had been latent anti-Semitism...
Sacks, John Restoring My Gal Sal
John Sacks learned about the airplane [Annotator's Note: the completely restored Boeing B-17-E heavy bomber named My...
Witmeyer, John "J.J." A Brotherhood Forged in Combat
John Witmeyer served in five armies of the US Army through six campaigns in the European Theater of World War 2. He had...
Gustafson, Gerald Black Feet and the Maginot Line
[Annotator’s Note: A washing machine running in the background is audible throughout this segment. Interviewee has...
Brown, Roscoe Crew Chiefs, the Tuskegee Airmen. Inc. and Postwar Accomplishments
Dr. Roscoe Brown’s crew chief was Marcellus Smith whose nickname was Chow Hound. He was a very dedicated crew chief....

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