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James "Jim" Geisler was in the Panama Canal when he learned of the Japanese surrender [Annotator's Note: Victory Over...

[Annotator's Note: This clip begins in mid-conversation between Virgil Clayton Moen and the interviewer.] Moen was born...

Alois Kopp escaped from a sinking Hell Ship and swam to the beach on Burma only to be recaptured by the Japanese. The...

Clarene Anderson thought the P-39 was a cool airplane. With the engine mounted in the center of the plane there was...

George Shenkle was born in New Jersey in 1921. His father was a clerk to the superintendent of a steel company. His...

Gus Blass, II had a captain during the war named Brooks Norman. After the war Blass wrote him a letter. Norman...

James Flannigan was assigned a heavy 610 [Annotator's Note: SCR-610] artillery radio. His buddy carried the battery...

Irving Becker remembers a funny incident as his most memorable event of the war. It involved some comrades and women at...

Robert Martin went to Europe as the radio operator on the USS LST-515. It was cold. Everyone had to stand watch. He...

Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was based in Italy in 1944. Card playing consumed a big part of the idle time spent on base...

Benjamin Wolf Cohen got his legal middle name after he contracted Polio as a young child. He was cured miraculously...

Lewis Thomas Easterling and a few other prisoners made their way to Stuttgart [Annotator's Notes: Stuttgart, Germany]...

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