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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Weiss what life aboard the USS Columbia (CL-56) was like.] He had duties....

Henry Freedman and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] were anxiously awaiting their American...

Fred Hirsekorn had been assigned a Buck Rogers tank. The Buck Rogers tank was an experimental tank with 60 four and a...

Charles Scheffel got married on 27 March 1942. He cut his college hours down so he could go on a honeymoon. Scheffel...

James McDermott was being held in the British, North, compound at Stalag Luft III in Zagań, Poland. That is where The...

Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] joined the...

Irvin C. Klimas' interest was in college, and he applied to a few colleges. He was accepted at Carnegie Tech [Annotator...

Erik Johnsen was in school at Tulane, University in New Orleans, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He feels this...

Robert Heller was low on fuel and had to decide what to do. While looking for a field to take the plane down, he sent a...

The hedgerows were maybe 1,000 years old and enclosed every acre or two. Joseph Alter says some of them were eight feet...

Joseph Hartmann did nine to 12 months of duty. The battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62) was being commissioned. They all...

Josephine Pescatore remembers pot belly stoves at the end of the tent which kept the whole tent warm. One evening a...

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