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[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Assigned as a gunner in the...

Roy Creek remembers the chaos at Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...

Arthur Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor on 5 October 1945 during the Nimitz Day celebration in Washington D.C....

[Annotator's Note: Recording begins mid conversation between Hugh Colbert and the interviewer.] Hugh Colbert joined the...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was sent to basic training anticipating that he would join the Air Corps. Instead he...

Leedell Neyland got the Legion of Honor Medal [Annotator’s Note: The Legion of Honor is the highest French order of...

Hillman James Prestridge partook in the biggest operation ever [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of...

Stanley Stewart said that, on the whole, he enjoyed his tour in the Pacific. He had been on Bougainville, Papua New...

Joseph Massey was born in September 1925 in Argo, Alabama. He had five brothers and he was the youngest. There were...

Earl Tweed was born in Fort Benning, Georgia in 1922. He attended grade school there then went to high school in...

Daniel Altman’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his friend was shot on the beach of Normandy [...

[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn was a prisoner of war after his aircraft was shot down on 12 April 1944.] After...

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