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Albert Hatala was born in 1923 in Czechoslovakia. When he was about six months old his father moved to the United...
John L. Cowan went on active duty in February or March 1945. He was at MIT [Annotator's Note: Massachusetts Institute...
Kent Butzer Kellegrew was born in September 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. After four years in Duluth, his family moved to...
Charles Brightman Skinner was born in May 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida. He had an older brother who served in World...
In 1942, Joseph Stefaniak and some friends got a three-day pass [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short...
Philip Whitman went overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. He went...
William Fili went for assignment to Salt Lake City [Annotator's Note: Salt Lake City, Utah]. He had just finished B-26...
Carey Eleser was a Navy Armed Guard radioman aboard the SS David B. Johnson. They left Charleston, South Carolina and...
Anton Jaber took his basic training at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma. He went right into advanced training with his division [...
Homer Myers flew his own airplane from California across the Pacific. The first flight was 12 to 13 hours. They left...
James Gooch graduated from school and was sent to Florida to replace a Warrant Officer [Annotator's Note: after...
Wallace Yip, Sr. was in basic training at Camp Claiborne [Annotator's Note: Camp Claiborne, Rapides Parish, Louisiana...
Jackson Davis took the USS Neosho (AO-23) from San Pedro, California and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 7 September 1941....
Martin Brignac had no idea of what the Japanese were going to do along the coast. They had to try and do anything they...
Johnnie A. Jones, Senior went to Southern University Demonstration High School [Annotator's Note: Southern University...
Warren Sanford Moose was born in November 1921 in San Francisco, California. He grew up with two brothers and one...
Harold Stanford Cole did not experience segregation while he was growing up. When he got into the service, he did not...
Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan, China as part of the 21st Photo...
After training in Fort Lewis, Washington, Peter Dipol was sent to the Mojave Desert [Annotator’s Note: in the foothills...
[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was working in Santa Ana, California when Marine Fighter Squadron 212 (VMF-212) was...
Benjamin "Dusty" Rhoads went into the service in early 1942. He did boot camp and communications school near Saint...
Leila Morrison joined the Army Air Corps and was sent to Denver [Annotator's Note: Denver, Colorado] in 1943. She was...
George H. Roxandich completed basic training. While there, he got sick with 104-degree fever which was upsetting...
James Anthony Gabour enlisted in the National Guard [Annotator's Note: in 1941] and then he was eventually transferred...
When he was drafted, Weldon Fruge wasn't excited about leaving his home and family, but he traveled to Fort Knox,...
Nicholas Ventura, Sr. was born in Trenton, New Jersey in June 1923 and spent some of his youth in Scranton,...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] When Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein was very...
Moise S. Steeg, Jr. received his commission and went to Keesler [Annotator's Note: Keesler Field; now Keesler Air Force...
Wesley Fronk never fired a shot in anger. There was one instance where he and another soldier were returning from...
James Sandoz had a good trip overseas even though it took longer than normal. They made a lot of detours due to...
Gerry Jones was born in September 1926 in Logansport, Indiana. His family was badly affected by the Great Depression....
William Hill was born in August 1922 in rural eastern Kentucky. His father, a subsistence farmer, moved the family to...
When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...
Joseph Haines was drafted in April 1944. He was sent to Camp Lee, Virginia. He got off the train and there were two...
Samson Alexander got the idea to join the US Air Force but did not have a college education. The principal of his...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar was inducted at...

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