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While in a troop car going across the country, Ralph F. Lafferty shared a car with his friends Ralph and Duke. Lafferty...
Going back [Annotator's Note: in his story] to Anzio [Annotator's Note: Battle of Anzio, 22 January 1944 to 5 June 1944...
During the death march from the ammunition factory to the Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp in Germany, Elizabeth...
Nathan Taffel and his brother were forced by the Germans to leave their labor camp and begin a death march. The weather...
Judith Altmann recalled that it took three weeks, mostly traveling on foot, to move from Essen to Bergen-Belsen. The...
Luba Keller was taken to the ammunition factory in Skarżysko, Poland. [Annotator's Note: Now Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland...
Alan Moskin always says he is one of the lucky ones. He got emotional some time ago speaking and some of the guilt...
The Japanese continued strafing and bombing, and Charles Harrison said the Marines were on the alert for another...
Johnnie A. Jones, Senior went to Southern University Demonstration High School [Annotator's Note: Southern University...
George A. Sarosi's parents were fully aware of what was happening in Germany prior to the war. His father had been...
Harold Stanford Cole did not experience segregation while he was growing up. When he got into the service, he did not...
Schuyler Lininger was sent to the Pacific in August 1945. He was part of the replacement troops coming in for the...
After Stanley Jack Birnbaum arrived in England, he sailed across the English Channel and arrived in France a few days...
Joseph LaNier exited San Francisco toward Pearl Harbor. Everything that LaNier saw when he went into the Navy was new...
Since the unit Gus Gikas led was intended to replace another unit in India that had been deployed for two years, their...
Norman Ikari’s request for a transfer to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was granted, but he was busted down from...
Alexander Jefferson traveled overseas on the top deck with White nurses in a group of all Black officers. The White...
When Willie Wesley Thompson volunteered for the service, the Navy told him he did not have to go because he had bad...
On 27 October 1942, Howard Chandler was on his way to work when he observed more soldiers in town than usual. [...
Right after Passover in 1944 [Annotator's Note: after 14 April 1944. The Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944.], Eva...
Annaliese Nossbaum and her mother were prisoners in Auschwitz [Annotator’s Note: Auschwitz; a complex of over 40...
Ralph Griffith said the worst part of being a prisoner was the uncertainty. They never got any news. They had no idea...
Ora Hicks worked as a nurse for five years at Charity Hospital [Annotator's Note: in New Orleans, Louisiana], from 1936...
William Dabney and his fellow soldiers tried to enjoy themselves whenever they could. They would engage in activities...
Rothacker Smith's family moved into his grandfather's house in Detroit before the Great Depression. There, Smith and...
F.M. Richard Simons was a disc jockey for a while and then had enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...
Despite his excitement at being liberated from German custody, Rothacker Smith knew he was to return to a racist and...
Robert Barnett came back to the United States through the Panama Canal on Christmas Day, 1945 to join the Atlantic...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein remembers when...
Isaac Edward could not find much work after being discharged at the end of the war so he volunteered for the US Air...
On 4 May 1945, near the end of the war, Alan Moskin and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 66th Infantry Regiment, 71st...
Joseph Haines was drafted in April 1944. He was sent to Camp Lee, Virginia. He got off the train and there were two...
Lily Sawada was 14 years old and in high school when the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. The school was very...
Before Elmo Espree got on the ship for deployment overseas, his group of black soldiers was lined up first on the...
Asked about discrimination in Hawaii, Walter Oka observed that the Filipinos that lived in the area held animosity for...
Oscar Culp was able to write home during the time of his military service. The cost of postage has risen sharply over...

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