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Robert Tyler Oakes easily adjusted to civilian life. He was glad to be home. He does not recall any posttraumatic...

On Christmas Day 1943 [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1943], Norman Raner was told he was receiving a battlefield...

Hairston was puzzled how in World War I and World War II, African Americans were labeled as being inefficient soldiers...

Howard T. Maki found that the Purple Heart [Annotator's Note: the Purple Heart Medal is award bestowed upon a United...

William Banghart drove a lieutenant in a general’s jeep. This could have led to a court martial. Banghart was in the...

Tokuji Yoshihashi was drafted and went to Camp Blanding, Florida for 17 weeks of basic training. He was trained on...

Freddie Ohr’s friend Leon asked him to go with him into the Air Corps. Ohr walked into a storefront that had been...

When William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the Strategic Air Command of the US Air Force] came home from Korea...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks very slowly throughout this segment.] Taylor Howard lived in Gulfport [Annotator’...

Harley Reynolds and his unit were moving inland toward their objective. The first troops from his unit he ran into were...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: a forward observer with the 1st Infantry Division] prepared for the French...

Bryan Compton was born in Watonga, Oklahoma in 1919. He has lived around Watonga all his life and got to see the world...

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