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Towards the end of World War 2, James Nannini was located at an outpost near Innsbruck [Annotator's Note: Innsbruck,...
Edward Stone was aboard the USS Bumper (SS-333) after its first war patrol when it entered Subic Bay in the Philippines...
Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: stationed in England with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group,...
Cleston Stell was on the Enns River in Austria when Hitler killed himself and the war ended. He did not believe the...
[Annotator's Note: Stanley Richard Williams served in the Navy aboard the mortar ship USS LCI(M)-352 as a signalman and...
Ray Garcia and Al Nickels [Annotator's Note: later United States Air Force Colonel Albert B. Nickels] both made the Air...
J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was in a hospital recovering from wounds when he learned about the end of war in Europe. He was...
Remi Kidder got the bed he always hoped he would have. [Annotator's Note: Kidder joined the Navy and served aboard the...
Rip Rice did not have many interactions with civilians. [Annotator’s Note: Rice had just entered Holland.] They were...
W. P. “Bill” Allen was assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] hit a mine not far the...
Robert L. Donovan remembers that the Filipinos would take the leftovers from the soldiers after they would liberate an...
Donald H. "Don" Bee served two years in the Navy. He heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...
Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. left New Guinea and was assigned to Leyte Gulf in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Fristoe...
Paul Harless was assigned to the USS John Rodgers (DD-574) as a boatswain’s mate second class. One of the last...
Robert Rineer was assigned to a crew as a radioman [Annotator’s Note: as part of the 443rd Operations Group, 10th Air...
Floyd James Reissig was in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] when the war ended. When he got...
Leon Waldman’s unit [Annotator’s Note: 840th Bombardment Squadron, 483rd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force] they got...
Joseph Townsend started to lose his teeth in 1955. The dentist told him that all his teeth were cracked at the ridge....
Albert Porche was in Italy when the war in Europe ended. The men were to be transferred to Sweden but with the end, the...
Hilar Moore was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands], which was the forward base for the...
Jack H. Bleuler served as a tail gunner on a B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] with...
When the war ended, Leila Morrison [Annotator's Note: serving as an Army nurse in the 118th Evacuation Hospital in...
Joseph J. Drake fought all the way through to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia [Annotator's Note: Plzeň (Pilsen), Czech Republic...
Theodore Robert Tanner was in the Philippines when the nuclear bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...
Robert Kenneth “Bob” Boehm [Annotator’s Note: a navigational equipment technician assigned to the 415th AACS (Army...
Thomas Lusco Sr. remembers that at night, there were dogfights between the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51...
Cass Phillips flew toward New Guinea from Hawaii making several stops at small islands along the southwesterly route....
Ricardo R. Rondinelli and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 47th Bombardment Squadron, 41st Bombardment Group, Seventh Air...
After receiving his wings and commission, Anthony “Tony” Gallego went home [Annotator’s Note: to Los Angeles,...
Basil Woolf looked about after the action at Walcheren Island and, to his dismay, only his ship [Annotator's Note: LCH-...
[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] Edwin Sedran was assigned to Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian...
Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...
Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...
After being wounded in Belgium, Bradford Clark Freeman was sent back to England and didn't return to his company [...
When it came time to leave Burma [Annotator's Note: now Myanmar], Robert Lippman was told he would be part of the lead...
While fighting in Europe, Warren Bowersox recalls returning from a contact patrol and being fired on by replacement...

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