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James Marks had been present at Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands for atomic bomb tests. About two months later, he was...
James Kemp McLaughlin returned home after the war and received a 30 day leave after which he reported to the...
Alton Barnes loves the United States and its freedoms. Freedom is the most important thing in this country. He decided...
Francis Higgins says a female off camera had his uncle in a spell. [Annotator's Note: His uncle was Andrew Jackson...
Jack Taylor participated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. His air group from the USS Essex (CV-9) was tasked with attacking...
Gustave Heinecke enrolled at Washington and Lee University in 1940. His roommate in 1941 was the son of a congressman...
Vernon Alexander fought in the Muehlhausen combat. The fighting was hot and difficult. Climbach was another instance of...
Freeman Dyson was not involved with the Manhattan Project. He was totally surprised at the dropping of the atomic bombs...
When he arrived on Wake Island [Annotator's Note: with the US Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion] in August 1941,...
David E. Olson was born in 1919 in Alburnett, Iowa. He was of Norwegian ancestry. He was born with a twin brother and...
John Finn enlisted in the Navy in July 1926 and went directly into three months' training in San Diego, California....
Harry Watson said that when the war started, the submarines were used merely as a scouting force. They would get...
Jack Taylor was well pleased flying F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft] fighter planes. The...
The Air Force sent Adolf Wesselhoeft to Lackland Air Force Base for basic training. He became a ground photographer,...
Jack Brukman realized that there was nothing to do when he was off duty [Annotator's Note: while serving as a ground...
Henry A. Tacket was aboard the USS Heermann (DD-532) after the Battle of Eniwetok when the fleet was sent to a natural...
Frank Fontana went into Holland then Belgium. He was a supply sergeant for the whole outfit [Annotator's Note: 93rd...
Robert Gurr and those at Disneyland were struggling to survive the opening months of Disneyland. When summer ended and...
Harold Joslin and his fellow prisoners of war tried to keep their humor up. There was a Japanese guard who marched them...
In June 1947 Walter Bank went from Japan to the United States and joined the Navy reserves in New York for the benefits...
After he was discharged from the US Army Air Forces, Bryce Jordan went to the University of Wisconsin [Annotator's Note...
Joseph Rockforte knew he would soon be liberated when he heard the firing of guns getting closer. The Germans he worked...
Samuel Lombardo saw that life was getting tougher and tougher under Mussolini [Annotator's Note: Italian Fascist...
Catherine Long lived in a barracks with four other WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...
John Alison was requested to pick up a P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft] and fly it to...
William Hussey enlisted in the Navy because he grew up with it, and it seemed the thing to do once he reached adulthood...
James Weller landed in North Africa on 9 November 1942 while the Vichy French were still in combat with the Americans...
Mahlen Arledge saw replacements come into his division in Leyte. [Annotator's Note: Arledge was a member Company K, 3rd...
David Olson left the European Theater as an S3 officer in charge of plans, training and gunnery. Not too many men in...
Freeman Dyson was concerned with safety in the use of nuclear energy. Unfortunately, one means of learning lessons is...
Kenneth Beckman was born in August 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was raised in Northampton, Massachusetts where...
James Gaffney experienced no problems with leaks on his PT Boat. The boat construction was tight enough that it did not...
James Gaffney discusses the details of the type of torpedo used on the PT Boat on which he was assigned as a crewman....
Harry Carlson took his radar school training in Boca Raton, Florida. The system had been developed by the British using...
Dr. Kenneth Arrow shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with John Hicks in 1972. The prize had only been awarded for four...
Russell Gackenbach felt that Tibbets [Annotator's Note: retired USAF Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets] and crew number...

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