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Thomas Creekmore [Annotator's Note: in the 365th Bombardment Squadron, 305th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] stayed...
[Annotator's Note: George Colburn had his first combat kill in a cave on Iwo Jima, Japan in February 1945.] There was a...
Thomas Long said they made four landings among the small islands around Okinawa, under limited enemy fire. Their...
After being promoted to captain and finishing his last bombing mission, Jack Buckner left his group [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Werner what in his childhood in Austria made him what he is today and...
John Morrow does not really remember his first mission as a radio operator on a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...
When the Americans began arriving in England, Constance Cresswell attended a reception for the 92nd Bomber Group [...
In 1942, Joseph Stefaniak and some friends got a three-day pass [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short...
Ryan O'Brien crashed on 10 December 1944. O'Brien had been sent to lead navigator school. He flew a lot in the lead...
Ray Camp was in the South Pacific. He was assigned to VPB-121 [Annotator’s Note: Patrol Bombing Squadron 121]. He was a...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...
Anton Jaber took his basic training at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. He went right into advanced training with his division [...
Wallace Yip, Sr. was in basic training at Camp Claiborne [Annotator's Note: Camp Claiborne, Rapides Parish, Louisiana...
Leonard Jindra crossed the English Channel en route to the amphibious invasion of Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day;...
By 1943, Mary Frances Dorothy Wood attended college, but was evacuated to Devon [Annotator's Note: Devon, England]....
Lauren Swinney went to Northwestern University. The nuns had taught her to type when she was in boarding school and...
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins with Audrey Maduell already in conversation.] The Victory Belles was a personal...
Cyril de la Vergne was in the Marine Corps about for two and a half years. It was office work and did not change after...
Lillian Drucker did not have any Gold Star mothers [Annotator's Note: women entitled to display a gold star on a...
For Tom Thurman [Annotator's Note: American filmmaker], "December 7" [Annotator's Note: "December 7: The Movie," 1943...
On December 7th [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941], Robert Erskine Hendricks [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 6th...
Bruno S. Rinas remained at the smaller landing strip for a week while he fixed the plane [Annotator's Note: a Seversky...
DeQuindre McGlaun crossed the Atlantic and landed in Scotland before flying to England where he joined the 8th Air...
Walter Halloran landed in a small English town with his company and their equipment in preparation for the invasion [...
When John Arch McGill arrived in California, he didn't know much about what he would be doing. He learned that each...
Robert Marich traveled on a Liberty Ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship], with the entire...
James Anthony Gabour enlisted in the National Guard [Annotator's Note: in 1941] and then he was eventually transferred...
Alexander Jefferson traveled overseas on the top deck with White nurses in a group of all Black officers. The White...
Leather was needed for the servicemen's shoes. Audrey Maduell had to have ballet shoes and others. She had to use extra...
F.M. Richard Simons was a disc jockey for a while and then had enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...
While waiting to go home William "Bill" Parker was named First Sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company E, 116th Infantry...
Angelo Ciotta was shot in the leg and evacuated to an Army hospital in Guam. He spent ten days there and then went to...
Herbert Stern and his unit [Annotator's Note: 325th Field Artillery Battalion, 84th Infantry Division] left the Bulge [...
At Oak Ridge [Annotator's Note: Oak Ridge, Tennessee], there were three shifts running all the time. Dieter Gruen...
Robert Fitz crossed the Atlantic [Annotator's Note: Atlantic Ocean] 11 times during his service with the Navy Armed...
Barney Hajiro was involved in major combat prior to the battle of 29 October. [Annotator's Note: On 29 October 1944,...

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