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Vernon Alexander was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1924 and lived there for the first five years of his life. His dad...

[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] When Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein was very...

Linwood S. Inscoe was in Memphis, Tennessee on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He...

Arthur Albertson spend all his time trying to figure out how he was going to get through the war. He had to let...

Manuel Ruiz's most memorable experience of World War 2 was at the end of the war, and hundreds of people were going...

Alfred Dietrick went into combat on 9 September 1943 [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry...

There were 18 or 19 men on Thomas J. Blakey's plane [Annotator's Note: from the 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...

First Lieutenant Lloyd Reese flew 11 missions as a bombardier on a B-24 for the 67th Bombardment Squadron, 44th...

Robert Payne was in college during the war. He was following the course of the war. He was in ROTC [Annotator's Note:...

Edwin Slomka was shipped overseas on the Aquitania [Annotator's Note: RMS Aquitania], which was turned into a troopship...

Arley Jett was born in 1922 in Breathitt County, Kentucky. He grew up in Canoe, Kentucky and near Cincinnati, Ohio....

During the second Truk raid Alex Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group of...

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