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Ernest Cowell was first sent to Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands], an atoll in the Pacific...
In Sidney LaPook's next bivouac, German pilots, called Bed Check Charlie by the GIs, buzzed them late at night and...
On 18 April 1945 Thomas Murphy was shot. A few days before that happened they were attacked by German infantry...
Gerard V. Radice and the 7th Infantry Division left the Philippines to invade Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan...
Melvin C. Whitman was surprised the Japanese did not fight back against the invasion [Annotator's Note: Battle of...
Asked to describe the fighting in which he participated, Earl Conklin referred to his position with the mortars. The...
John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division] and his men got ahead...
Howard T. Maki found that the Purple Heart [Annotator's Note: the Purple Heart Medal is award bestowed upon a United...
Adolfo V. Celaya sailed to Tinian [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) delivering key components of...
Norman Neste feels that The National WWII Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana is a good institution to have, especially for...
Harold Bergbower learned to appreciate life and Uncle Sam as a result of his experiences in World War 2. He has felt...
Walter Ram and his fellow crewmates had to wait for another airplane before continuing their bombing missions. A female...
The first time Alan Moskin realized he was in combat and war, something hit the top of his head. There were mortar and...
Trinidad Ledesma received orders to ship out from Fort Ord [Annotator's Note: in California] at around three or four o'...
Paul Arst joined his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division...
John Bache-Wiig, Jr.'s first combat objective was at Philippsbourg, France. On 4 and 5 January [Annotator's Note:...
Clifford Albert Hahn reached Dutch Harbor [Annotator's Note: Dutch Harbor, Alaska] on 11 May [Annotator's Note: 11 May...
It gradually sunk in to Rothacker Smith that he was a prisoner of war as he believed for the first couple of days in...
Louis Burg [Annotator's Note: a second lieutenant in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...
[Annotator's Note: Gerard Dillon was a platoon commander in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment...
The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...
[Annotator's Note: Vernon Squire was in the 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 29th Infantry Division.] They fired far...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Edward Zarger what he remembers about the first day he was shot at by a German...
William Wayne had joined the Marine Corps with John Shepperly who got shot through the arm landing on Iwo Jima, Japan....
Leonard Lomell and Sgt. Kuhn [Annotator's Note: US Army Staff Sergeant Jack Kuhn] kept advancing forward, but as luck...
Jack Albert Del Monte felt he had finally made it when he was assigned to the 191st Tank Battalion [Annotator's Note:...
When Robert Rosendahl and his fellow survivors were told to destroy their weapons they threw them all out into the bay...
Stewart Bass never crashed a plane but discusses an incident in Opa-locka, Florida when he was a aboard a TBM [...
In Vietnam, Van Barfoot found the news different from the perspective he got from it in the United States. He saw and...
Lisle Neher took part in all five of the fire bomb mission. On those missions they would fly between 300 feet and 700...
Arnol Sellars went overseas to Italy to join a fighter squadron. When he got there, he had a lot more time on the P-47...
Frank Ramsey [Annotator’s Note: stationed in England with the 368th Bombardment Squadron, 306th Bombardment Group,...
Herman Molen was in the 305th Bombardment Group. They spent a lot of time training because of the weather. They would...
William Meredith’s job was to help escort bombers to their targets and back. If they did not run into trouble, they...
Richard Tangradi remembers when the pilot called him to the front and gave him a cigar during a mission. The wing had a...

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