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Siverts, Hans Assigned a Black Company
Hans Siverts' unit [Annotator's Note: 4th Convalescent Hospital] pretty much stayed together through the war. The last...
Bosworth, Paul Assigned to a B-17 Flying Fortress
Paul Bosworth was sent to Flagstaff, Arizona for training. He started shooting up all of the beautiful cactuses there....
Gust, Darrell Assigned to the 358th Bombardment Squadron
Darrell D. Gust's squadron [Annotator's Note: 358th Bombardment Squadron, 303rd Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] spent...
Muelder, Milton E. Assigned to the German Mission
Milton Meulder explained how George C. Marshall, as an aide to General John J. Pershing during The Great War [Annotator...
Black, Jerome Assigned to the Special Services Branch
Jerome Harold Black went to Allied Headquarters [Annotator's Note: Allied Force Headquarters, or AFHQ, in Caserta,...
Wilkins, Byron ASTP
Byron Othello Wilkins was in a provisional regiment that did not have enough guns to go around. They were issued 1917...
Beilman, Robert ASTP and Night Patrol
Robert Lewis Beilman enlisted into the Army with the hopes of being accepted into ASTP [Annotator's Note: Army...
Yackel, Eugene Atomic Bomb and Discharge
When Eugene Yackel first heard they had dropped the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...
Weiss, Jack Atomic Bomb then Home
Jack Weiss got off his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Columbia (CL-56)] and went on the South Dakota [Annotator's Note:...
Race, John "Jack Race" Atomic Bombs and Discharge
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John T. "Jack" Race where he was when heard of the atomic bombs being dropped...
Jaffe, Stanley Atomic Bombs to Hand Surgery
Dr. Stanley Jaffe does not recall hearing about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...
Breen, Vernon Atrocities of War
The next shocking thing Vernon Breen remembers was that as the war was winding down, a lot of the Germans got out of...
Barksdale, Battle Attack on Pearl Harbor
Battle Malone Barksdale was married to his wife Grace for 66 years. They were married on 29 August 1939. After they...
Weatherwax, Clarence "Uncle Herb" Attack on Pearl Harbor
When they were finished building their positions [Annotator's Note: along the beaches of Oahu] Clarence Herbert...
Bonelli, William Attack on Pearl Harbor
William Patrick Bonelli retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1960. On the night of 6 December 1941, Bonelli was in...
Engel, Russell "Russ" Attacked on Stuttgart Mission
[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...
Lefever, Paul Attacking a V-2 Factory in Stettin, Germany
Paul Lefever related in depth his mission to destroy a well protected V-2 rocket manufacturing site in Stettin [...
Easterling, Lewis "Tom" Attacking Ground Targets
Lewis Thomas Easterling remarked that his fighter group [Annotator's Note: 365th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group...
Ridyard, Herbert Attacking Sinz, Germany
Herbert W. Ridyard arrived at battalion headquarters prior to the advance on Sinz, Germany and was sent to find a...
Guarnere, William "Wild Bill" Attacking the guns at Brecourt Manor
Higgins, Gordon Attacking the Siegfried Line
Heading east and north into Germany, Gordon Higgins' 7th Army was flanked on either side by the French Army and Patton’...
Hazard, Mark Attacking the Siegfried Line
[Annotator's Note: Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. served in the Army as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion,...
Hazard, Mark Attacking with the French 2nd Armored Division Toward Neulauterburg
[Annotator's Note: Mark Gordon Hazard, jr. served in the Army as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion,...
Bucksell, Norris Attending Mass and Racial Discrimination
While Norris Bucksell was in Naples, Italy, the churches that had not been bombed stayed open and he was able to attend...
Holmes, Capers Attitude Towards Superiors and Postwar Career
To Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr., Colonel Shower [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Colonel Albert J. Shower] as an...
Heller, Robert Attitudes and Altitudes
It was a month or more before Robert Heller became the pilot of a new crew. As new personnel came in, especially top...
Aigner, Leslie Auschwitz
Leslie Aigner and the other living passengers were ordered out of the cattle car [Annotator's Note: upon their arrival...
Schloss, Eva Auschwitz
[Annotator's Note: Eva Schloss is an Austrian born Jew who fled to Amsterdam with her family after the Nazis came to...
Chandler, Howard Auschwitz
Howard Chandler began to see that he would never survive Auschwitz-Birkenau [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau...
Chandler, Howard Auschwitz Kapo
Shortly after arriving at Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in German...
Buckner, Jack Autopilot and the Norden Bombsight
As the war progressed, the air support was hit and miss for Jack Buckner and the other bomber crews [Annotator's Note:...
Childs, Charles "Chuck" Averting World War 3
Charles Childs feels that if we had not had a nuclear weapon, we would be speaking Japanese. During the Berlin Airlift...
Childs, Charles "Chuck" Aviation Cadet and Marriage
Charles Childs was lucky to graduate [Annotator's Note: in 1938]. He had some friends going to college and they needed...
Horne, Floyd "Bud" Aviation Cadet School
Floyd Horne signed up [Annotator's Note: for the US Army Air Forces Aviation Cadet Program] early enough that when he...
Brewer, Chester Aviation Cadet Training
Chester Brewer joined the Army Air Corps and was sent to Midland-Odessa [Annotator's Note: Midland-Odessa, Texas] and...
Stern, Guy Awarded the Bronze Star
Guy Stern received the Bronze Star when the war ended. The citation was for his developing a method of mass...
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