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Samuel Lombardo went to Fort Shanks prior to going to Pier 42 in New York for departure on the Queen Mary. Lombardo was...

Joseph Krause was stationed in Washington State while he continued his training to be a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing...

Alfred Pierse Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland in May 1922. He celebrated his third birthday on the boat taking him...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Joseph Alter what the trip overseas aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth was like.]...

[Annotator’s Note: Airplanes flying overhead are audible throughout segment.] John R. Eisenach was born in May 1925 on...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses the interview to ask the interviewee to face him.] After retiring from the...

It took George Kays’ unit [Annotator’s Note: 136th Field Artillery Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] 48 hours to set up...

Melvin Linkous grew up with his parents and brother on a farm in Virginia. Both boys served in Europe during the war....

Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force at...

[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] Joseph Fulton Jr. was born in March 1923 in...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld had a horrible experience in the English Channel. He, along with many other troops, got very...

After being badly wounded and captured by the Germans, Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the...

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