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Coolidge, Charles The Medal of Honor and Combat Stories
Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...
Kerner, John The Medic’s Red Cross Badge
John Kerner was assigned close to the front in a battalion aid station [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th...
Field, Richard The Mediterranean
Richard Field was overseas for about 21 months. His son was born nine months after he returned. They sailed out in a...
Carter, Alex The Mediterranean to the Pacific
Alex Carter Sr. went to Southern France. They used 50-cycle electricity. Carter met a girl that spoke perfect English....
Douglas, Walter The Merseburg Mission
Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...
Epstein, Ben The Moral of the Story
Ben Epstein reiterated that his mother's influence, and her mantra "Don't ever give up," saved his life the night the...
Ikari, Norman The Most Decorated Unit in the Army
Norman Ikari was in Camp Shelby when he was put into E Company. Senator Inouye was a buck sergeant squad leader. He was...
Foerster, David The Navy's First Hurricane Hunters
David Foerster was in the Azores when the war ended in Europe and Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...
Foster, Robert The Navy, Pearl Harbor, and the Army
Robert E. Foster entered the Navy in November 1934. He was drafted [Annotator's Note: into the Army] in 1942. Foster...
Shenkle, George The Netherlands
George Shenkle [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...
Reynolds, Harley The night of June 6th and morning of June 7th 1944
Harley Reynolds, through subsequent research, was able to find out what the German half track was doing there. The half...
Rendelman, Ed The Normandy Invasion
Ed Rendelman arrived in England after sailing from the United States in March 1944. The men knew there was a big build...
Biondo, Frank The Normandy Invasion
Frank Biondo was on deck crossing the English Channel for D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France...
Hurley, Wallace The Outpost
Wallace Hurley faced a division of white camouflaged German soldiers who approached the American lines. The Americans...
Bayuk, Rose The Pacific and War's End
Backing up to the time when Rose Bayuk first arrived in London [Annotator's Note: London, England], she relates how the...
Belliard, Diana The Paris Years
When Diana Belliard and her family left [Annotator's Note: when they left Berlin, Germany] they first went back to the...
Kirkpatrick, Otto The Pathfinders
Otto Kirkpatrick got orders on Easter Sunday 1943 to transfer to the 322nd Bomb Group [Annotator’s Note: 322nd...
Walter, Robert The people you meet at the front
[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
Gertner, Gil The Philippines
Gil Gertner served in the 71st Joint Assault Signal Company (JASCO) [Annotator’s Note: specialized units which...
Grass, Philip The Philippines
Philip Grass remembers that a Japanese captain was killed the first day they were there [Annotator’s Note: referring to...
Kuwayama, Yeiichi "Kelly" The pressures of being a combat medic
Kelly Kuwayama landed in either May or June 1944 in Italy. They worked their way up the boot of Italy. When they were...
Labat, Ubert The Push into Germany
When the big push toward Berlin commenced, Ubert Labat says the Americans brought all the big guns up to the line, and...
Trindal, Wesley The recon patrol
[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal served in the US Army as a rifleman in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry...
Aalders, Johannes The Resistance and Executions
Johannes Aalders says that to be in the resistance you had to be 18 years old. His cousins would ask him to do some...
Whitaker, Fred The Rhine River
Fred Whitaker remembers the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
Higgins, Gordon The Road to Italy
Gordon Higgins' unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 407th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] joined the...
Mabarac, Raymond The Role of a Human Being
Recalling 28 March 1945 when he went into Germany, Raymond Mabarac says he was on "recon" [Annotator's Note:...
Roberts, George The Rose of York
George Roberts befriended a woman who was the widow of a British officer who had four daughters while stationed in...
Reese, Lloyd The Run on Ploesti
Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...
Whitcomb, Robert The Russians and Writing Home
No one tried to escape while Robert Whitcomb was a prisoner. After the Russians liberated the camp [Annotator's Note:...
Dabney, William G. The scene on the beach
William Dabney and his unit dug into the sand as soon as they landed on the beach. They could not move inland until the...
Molen, Herman The Second Schweinfurt Raid
Herman Molen volunteered to go on the second Schweinfurt mission [Annotator’s Note: The Second Schweinfurt raid, also...
Roberts, George The Second Schweinfurt Raid
When George Roberts flew to Schweinfurt they ran out of ammunition, except for in the radio room, on the way to the...
Payn, Thomas The Ship's Mess
The English Navy provisioned the Canadian sailors' mess and Thomas Payn said they ate a lot of strong smelling mutton....
Gohlke, Marvin The Siegfried Line
Marvin H. Gohlke did not plan to be a hero. His goal was to do what he had to and to survive. The 94th Division [...
Ryan, John The Siegfried Line and Experiencing Enemy Fire
[Annotator's Note: The audio level of this interview is very low.] Before John Ryan reached the Siegfried Line, he came...

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