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Henry Sherman Fouts' last combat mission [Annotator's Note: with the 346th Bombardment Squadron, 99th Bombardment Group...
Darrell D. Gust's second, third and fourth missions happened one day apart. Then a fog moved in, grounding the group [...
James Read Kirk's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air...
[Annotator's Note: Audio is not good throughout this clip.] Marvin Raymond Graham was released from a hospital a few...
Walter Rozett's last mission [Annotator's Note: with the 369th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group, 8th Air...
Robert Frederick Reed found that flying near Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was traumatic, knowing that...
The last mission for Mason Brownell Fitch really sticks out in his mind. Reaching into his little blue book [Annotator'...
Joseph Blouin did not fly any missions after D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip interview, Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. refers to papers he is holding as he...
The fog finally lifted after months of bad weather, and on December 26, 1944, Michael J. "Mike" Pohorilla [Annotator's...
Edgar Eugene “Gene” Fricker was a crewman on an LCVP [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP; also...
Donald Dean Paynter came back, finished school with an engineering degree, and went to work for Shell Oil Company. He...
Seymour Reitman got an open furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] to England....
[Annotator's Note: Gerhard Franzky served in the Waffen SS as a communications officer in Headquarters, 22nd Regiment,...
DeQuindre McGlaun [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] got...
Clarence Carlson was only stationed at St. John in France [Annotator's Note: Beaumont Sur Oise Airfield, Beaumont Sur...
Roy H. Matsumoto found the high elevation of the Burma jungle and the winter weather resulted in temperatures cold at...
When there were indications that both German fronts were collapsing, Jack Lengsfield knew the war would soon be over....
After Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Norman Sterrie...
Robert S. Gibbs was shipped to Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines, aboard the USS Boston (CA-69)] in October...
Next, the USS Hutchins (DD-746) took part in the landings on the Philippine island of Leyte, and Mark Brannon mentioned...
Leanne Blinzler Noe [Annotator's note: a child internee at Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and other internees [Annotator's Note: in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee taps a cup throughout the segment.] Caroline Bailey Pratt and her family were interned...
Eva Nathanson's fever was getting worse, but all they could do was cool her face with wet cloths. One day, she heard...
Joy Skelton witnessed pamphlets being dropped on her prison camp. They told of the war being over. She always feared...
Judah Samet left by train and remembers passing through Berlin [Annotator's Note: Berlin, Germany] where ruins were...
Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air...
The next day Ralph Francis Hogan was imprisoned at a compound, the city was attacked. Instead of going in a bomb...
Wallace Spencer remembers the air groups and the pilots stayed away from the sailors. In one attack, all the colored...
In late October 1944, Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. was sent to Naples, Italy by ship. The voyage took almost two weeks....
The 71st Fighter Squadron [Annotator's Note: 71st Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, 15th Air Force] usually guarded...
Jack Rolfson was anxious to fly his first mission. He recalled he could not sleep the night before. At the time he flew...
Edgar De Pue Osgood was on anti-submarine and escort duty [Annotator's Note: as a navigator in Patrol Bombing Squadron...
Dr. Thomas Fitzpatrick was assigned as the radio navigator in the 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group,...
[Annotator's Note: Floyd Horne was stationed at Royal Air Force Station Great Dunmow, or RAF Great Dunmow, Little...

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