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[Annotator's Note: Arthur Smith was serving as chief engineer aboard the USS SC-1267 (SC-1267) in the Sulu Sea,...
Mort Walker then got on a train and went back to Missouri University. He returned to school to complete his journalism...
In July 1946, Paul Ignatius was separated from the Navy with the rank of lieutenant in Los Angeles [Annotator’s Note:...
Curt Simmons was in New Orleans on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day]. In order to get discharged, the...
After the war in Europe ended, Jerome Fatora was sent to Czechoslovakia to train for the fighting in Japan. While he...
The only negative thing Frederick Amore heard about the American warfare in the Pacific was when "they used that bomb...
Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce was taken to the location where she was arrested by Charlie Kinesley [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...
Myers Bernard Rosenbloom figured God was very good to him in that he allowed him to go through the war and not even get...
Jerry LaMura was sent to a hospital in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York] and then to Washington D.C...
Fred Whitaker was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in July 1925. He had one sister. He enlisted on 17 June 1943. He...
Samuel W. Smith was sent to North Carolina. In the middle of processing, they canceled their orders. They recognized...
After a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Bill Toledo [Annotator's Note:...
When Robert Freligh got out of the navy he went back to school at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. They had to go to...
The trip home after Howard Genrich was discharged is a little blurry to him but he recalls hitchhiking and riding buses...
[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp used the G.I. Bill to go to...
Clifford Campbell was at Fort Lewis [Annotator's Note: now part of Joint Base Lewis–McChord; near Tacoma, Washington]...
Nancy Lynch Castellano authored a book entitled "Looking Back at the WAVES: A Chronicle of the 90,000 Navy Women of...
After his discharge, Frank Pantuso rode a bus back home to San Antonio [Annotator's Note: San Antonio, Texas] where he...
After the war, Robert Mayes returned to the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee and got his degree. He then...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer has Harry Tennant answer questions written to him.] Harry Tennant was in the Naval...
Linwood S. Inscoe was in Memphis, Tennessee on VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945]. He...
James Mather joined the V-5 Program [Annotator's Note: V-5 US Navy Aviation Cadet Program, 1939 to 1943] and flew...
Bernard Peters lost his hearing completely in one ear so he had to get out of the service. He went to work for a...
Edward Thomas Toole thought transitioning to the Army was easy. He was a commissioned officer. It was interesting to...
After leaving the Air Force, Hersey Goodwin went back to get his master's degree. He returned to his hometown [...
Wayne Lebsack was discharged in September 1945, and he returned home on crutches. He took advantage of the G.I. Bill...
Julia L. Myers went to Liege, Belgium. They had to clean the windows and scrub the floors of an abandoned hospital they...
Robert Boyer used the G.I. Bill to buy a house and to get a bachelor's degree in psychology from Gettysburg College [...
Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...
Wallace McKay did have bad feelings towards the Japanese. He married a Canadian woman. He was concerned about the Nazis...
Alfons Robert Kleindienst returned to America by himself after World War 2 from Munich [Annotator's Note: Munich,...
Robert L. Donovan went from the Philippines to the United States [Annotator’s Note: in November 1945]. Everybody wanted...
James Oney was discharged 30 November 1946 [Annotator's Note: as a Ship's Cook 1st Class]. He thought about a career....
Louis Andriano was discharged from the Navy in June 1946. He took advantage of the G.I. Bill to an extent. He went to a...
After the war in Europe ended, Thomas Kingsley and the 27th Tank Battalion, 20th Armored Division was sent south as a...

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