Atlantic Theater of Operations (ATO)

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Robert Villars and his merchant ship pulled into the neutral port of Lourenço Marques. [Annotator's Note: Lourenço...
Robert Villars' third voyage was through the South Atlantic and the Straits of Gibraltar. Entering the Mediterranean,...
James T. Lindsey was born in Marshall, Missouri in August 1924. He grew up with one sister. His parents owned a...
Gene M. Cushman was born in 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He grew up with an older brother. His father, a career...
In 1942, Gene M. Cushman was admitted to the aviation cadet program and attended his pre-flight training in San Antonio...
Jacqueline Bishop was born in March 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her father was an electrician. During the Depression [...
Howard Baroudi had his boot camp training in Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator’s Note: in 1942, he was ordered to the...
Robert Villars and his friend Charlie returned home to New Orleans in January 1944. A big party was thrown and everyone...
Howard Baroudi and his ship were rushed to the Pacific to counter the overpowering Japanese [Annotator’s Note: Baroudi...
Robert Dannehl took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of...
Wilbur Lee Jackson was discharged, but had to sign up for the draft afterward. There was concern about the war not...
Louis Black took advantage of the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944...
Howard Baroudi saw hell at Tarawa [Annotator's Note: the Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943; Tarawa, Gilbert...
After being discharged from service, I. J. Karpay did not have a hard time adjusting to civilian life. He used the G.I...
Gene M. Cushman commends Reagan [Annotator’s Note: Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th president of the United States] for his...
Jacqueline Bishop was extremely excited when the war ended. She was 15 years old. She remembers it was VJ-Day [...
Gene M. Cushman was a safety manager as a lieutenant colonel in Spain where he oversaw a fleet of B-58s [Annotator’s...
Gene M. Cushman flew cargo planes during the Berlin Airlift [Annotator's Note: Allied military operation which...
Stanley "Stan" Levy was born in July 1924 on the south side of Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. His...
Grant Patton was born in Oklahoma in May 1915. He had three radio shops in Texas. He serviced jukeboxes, record players...
Harold Wellington was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in September 1924. He had one older brother and one...
When William Lansford was in Iceland, he and the other Marines spent their time building their own Quonset huts and...
Stanley "Stan" Levy's most memorable experience of World War 2 encompasses many things. He enjoyed being in Orlando [...
Grant Patton does not think the war changed him. He was doing the same thing he was at home. The war changed the...
Gene M. Cushman’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was competing in gunnery competitions. He served in World...
Harold Wellington loved being in the Merchant Marines. He loved the travel and the work. He could not get a job after...
Robert Villars found that life was cheap as a result of his time in World War Two. He particularly saw that in India...
James T. Lindsey’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was the end of the war while he was in OCS [Annotator’s...
[Annotator’s Note: The sound and video not synced throughout this segment.] Larry Engmann’s most memorable experience...
Stanley "Stan" Levy was a cryptographer [Annotator's Note: cryptology is the study of secret codes]. He received...
Harold Wellington went into London [Annotator’s Note: London, England] in early 1943. While in London, they had a guide...
Robert Villars returned to the Armed Guard center at the New Orleans Naval Station [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans,...
Larry Engmann served as a seaman and deck hand in the Navy and was assigned to the USS J. Fred Talbott (DD-156). His...
Wilbur Lee Jackson knew the deck gun [Annotator’s Note: five inch, 25 caliber naval gun aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287...
After Bougainville, William Lansford went back to the United States. He was a high point guy. Back in the United States...

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