Civilian Training Program

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William Douglas Lansford was born in 1922 in Los Angeles. His father was an Anglo from Texas and his mother was a...
[Annotator's Note: The audio level of this interview is very low.] John Ryan was born in June 1924, one of four...
Lester Caplan was born in 1924 in Baltimore, Maryland. As the son of a traveling salesman, he felt his childhood was "...
Carl Koone was born in Cleveland, Arkansas in August 1922. He grew up during the Great Depression in a family that ran...
John Coxe was born in August 1921 in Walker, Louisiana. He was one of seven children, four of whom were members of the...
Milton Muelder spent seven years working on his doctoral dissertation, and in this section he describes his research on...
Grace Brown and some friends liked to go out after work. They would meet up with the different soldiers that came into...
Joseph P. Fulco did not think the fighting was as bad after crossing the Rhine [Annotator's Note: Rhine River]. He...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Wicklund how he ended up in the Army.] John Wicklund explains that during...
Edward E. Boyles joined the Army on 28 February 1938. He had gone through three summers of Citizens Military Training...
Elmer Nicholson, Jr. went to high school for two years. He went into the CCs [Annotator's Note: Civilian Conservation...
Vernon Schmidt was born in Reedley [Annotator's Note: Reedley, California] in January 1926. His father worked on a farm...
Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. was born in White Hall, Illinois [Annotator's Note: in July 1918]. During the Great...
Frank Zunno was sent to an Armored Division, filling their ranks to be deployed. He was met by plenty of farm boys who...
Bernice Haydu said her first solo cross-country flight in the AT-6 [Annotator's Note: North American AT-6 Texan...
George Kearney was living on Magazine Street [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana] when he went to work for...
In February 1945, Manfred Bahman and his family fled Dresden [Annotator’s Note: Dresden, Germany] after the Allies had...
Dr. Roscoe C. Brown was born in Washington D.C. and lived there for the first 17 years of his life. Washington D.C. was...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Carrel Reavis why he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, as a...
In 1936, many of Gerhard Franzky's friends joined the Hitler Youth. For them it was like the scouts [Annotator's Note:...
Robert Swan joined the Navy to avoid the draft. He was flying in Missoula where was going to school. He only had a year...
Edward Moore Penick Sr. was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in January 1922. Penick graduated from Little Rock High...
The extent of Bernice Haydu's travel up to that point had only encompassed three states: Pennsylvania, New York and New...
When the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots] first started out, they had to have 200 hours [...
After he graduated from high school, Ralph Crump opted against college, because he considered it a low-cost recruitment...
The racism James B. Jones experienced was bad. He thought it was worse for northerners who went to the south. In 1935...
Colonel John Acree Reeder was born in January 1921 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He attended the Boeing School of...
George Peto was born in Akron, Ohio in 1922. He grew up in the Portage Lakes area near Akron on an old farm during the...
Normand F. Gallichant was preparing to hit the beaches of Japan just before the war ended. Defenses in Japan would have...
Joseph H. Sasser Junior was riding in his friend's father's car when he heard over the car radio about the attack on...
The Civilian Pilot Training Program was offered in college and students would receive one credit hour. Richard Baile...
By Christmas of 1943, Richard Notebaert was home. His new baby was four months old, and his little family spent two...
Just before she went into the WASPs [Annotator's Note: Women Airforce Service Pilots], Norma Halberg and another girl,...
Arthur Frongello believes the Navy uniform is the most innovative piece of clothing a man could wear. The stripes,...
[Annotator's Note: Edna Davis had completed the Civilian Pilot Training Program and wanted to join the US Army Air...
Calvin Moret became interested in flying when he was about eight years old. Before the war started, he found himself...

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