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Lowell Rodrigue was born in June 1924 in Edgard, Louisiana, but was raised in St. Rose, Louisiana. His father worked...
James Warren David was born in Youngsville, Louisiana in January 1926. During the Great Depression, his father and...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Delbert Wombacher was his role was in the Louisiana Maneuvers, series of Army...
Henry Langrehr liked to parachute because it was a thrill. They used T5 chutes [Annotator's Note: parachute] which were...
William Cart and his squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 141 (VMSB-141)] were going to get on an...
Henry Muller was a second lieutenant training new recruits shortly after the draft began. He was wondering what his...
In early 1944, William Larson got orders overseas. He had gotten married just a few weeks before. He landed in England...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Larson to talk about the precision involved in map making.] There were...
John Stiles went to El Toro, California [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Air Station El Toro] for aviation training. The...
The hardest part of the Marines Corps for Ernest Jackson was basic training and learning to obey orders. But it was a...
Clayton Hall went to boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San Diego,...
In his second year at Yale [Annotator's Note: Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut], Walter Joseph Patrick Curley...
In 1943, Frank Pantuso reported to the local recruiting station on his 18th birthday and joined the Marine Corps. He...
Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams joined the Marine Corps on 17 March 1943. He trained at San Diego [Annotator's Note: US...
Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. got his orders in May 1943. [Annotator's Note: Someone off-camera interrupts Snyder.] Snyder had...
Bernice Williams chose the Marine Corps [Annotator's Note: US Marine Corps Women's Reserve] because she did not want...
Carl Beck was in Berchtesgaden, Germany when his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute...
John Bache-Wiig, Jr. went to Camp Roberts [Annotator's Note: in Monterey County and San Luis Obispo County, California...
Lester Hecht and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Marine Aircraft Group 32 (MAG-32)] trained pilots in Honolulu [Annotator...
[Annotator's Note: This interview clip begins with Victor Fienup in conversation with the interviewer regarding the...
Frank William Buschmeier served with the 350th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force during...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Campbell about pay. He explains the lengthy process for getting paid.]...
In June 1943, nearing the end of Maxwell Nelson’s deferment, he decided to join the US Merchant Marine and was sent to...
Sherman Vangrov was born in March 1927 in Dayton, Ohio, but moved around the county because his mother was ill. He...
Jack Vandervort chose to leave the US Merchant Marine. He did not like it too well. He was drafted and went to Camp...
Erik Johnsen's training in the US Merchant Marine at Henderson Point, Mississippi was very similar to that of a raw...
James T. Lindsey was born in Marshall, Missouri in August 1924. He grew up with one sister. His parents owned a...
Gene M. Cushman was born in 1920 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He grew up with an older brother. His father, a career...
It was raining one day on base [Annotator's Note: Camp Montford Point, Jacksonville, North Carolina]. Their mattresses...
Camp Bowie [Annotator's Note: in Brownwood, Texas] was a major camp that could handle several regiments. At the same...
[Annotator's Note: Charles Kneflin joined the Army in Columbus, Ohio in November 1942.] Kneflin was sent to Fort Sill,...
Nimocks Foyle Ladner was seventeen when he joined the Navy. He did not want to crawl through the bushes and see the...
Alvin Barnes was drafted into the Navy. He previously knew he would have to serve. He had no problem with boot camp. He...
Peter Hirschmann was sent to Fort Dix [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Trenton, New Jersey]...
David Klinepeter worked Monday through Friday and had the weekends and evenings off. He rarely had to pull watch duty....
In 1942, Gene M. Cushman was admitted to the aviation cadet program and attended his pre-flight training in San Antonio...

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