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In August 1944 Thomas Ballew’s unit [Annotator's Note: the 231st Searchlight Battalion] got orders to go overseas. They...

Maurice Zolkower voyaged on Nieuw Amsterdam [Annotator’s Note: Dutch ship SS Nieuw Amsterdam] to Omaha Beach [Annotator...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee’s chair makes noise throughout the segment.] After receiving his commission as a second...

Clarence Anderson was interested in flying from a young age. Lindbergh [Annotator's note: American aviator Charles...

Robert Zawada was 16 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He graduated from high school in 1942. He did not think...

After a couple of months on the HMCS Annapolis (DDH-265), Thomas Payn was reassigned to the base in Halifax [Annotator'...

[Annotator's Note: Through the 50 minutes that make up this clip, Melvin Linkous reviews period photographs of the men...

Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce went to work outside Vienna, Austria for the Luftwaffe [Annotator's Note: German Air Force]....

After Aschaffenburg [Annotator's Note: Aschaffenburg, Germany], Eugene Yackel went through Nuremberg [Annotator's Note...

Rip Rice was assigned to the 104th Infantry Division and went overseas in August 1944. They landed in Cherbourg [...

George W. McCarthy was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] in Europe during World War 2. While he was in camp, he...

William Leo Spaetgens and his Navy crewmates aboard the Liberty Ship SS Leslie M. Shaw (MC-0440) were all new to the...

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