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It was while operating out of Cherbourg in August [Annotator’s Note: Cherbourg, France in August 1944] that Solis “Sol...
In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...
Louis Conter left the USS Arizona (BB-39) via a liberty boat after her fatal bombing. He boarded the boat near number...
Gene Alair was in the South Pacific for many months. He was on a Transport Division Commander's Staff, CTD8. They had...
The first flight Jack Glass went on was a search mission during the later stage of the Eastern Solomons campaign. The...
[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...
Norman Sterrie was spotted over the forward elevator just as an explosion below lifted the elevator and him in his TBD...
James Allen was at Midway aboard the Sperry [Annotator's Note: USS Sperry (AS-12)] when the Wahoo [Annotator's Note:...
William Roy [Annotator's Note: as a member of the salvage crew on the USS Yorktown (CV-5) on 6 June 1942] witnessed the...
[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
Ray Garcia's worst experience happened in January 1945 when he could not fly because he had a cold. His best buddy,...
Robert Villars and his merchant ship pulled into the neutral port of Lourenço Marques. [Annotator's Note: Lourenço...
Jack Werner often wonders if the younger generation could have done what his generation did. His story should be titled...
William Pierce reveals a lucky find of a BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle] trigger assembly with a hand...
William Winter was at Fort McClellan for four months, after which they were assigned to Army units. In October 1944, he...
Walter Groth remembers that military intelligence had underestimated the number of Japanese on the island [Annotator’s...
Albert Simon was at Woodpecker Ridge in Luzon [Annotator’s Note: Luzon, the Philippines]. They landed on Leyte Island [...
Lorenzo Dow Crews and his unit, 397th Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: Crews was a squad leader in Company I, 3rd...
James Craig was waiting to get on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to cross to the beach [Annotator's Note...
Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. saw that he [Annotator’s Note: then US Marine Corps Major; later Brigadier General, James...
Benjamin Carson had trained at Pearl Harbor in preparation for the raid on Makin Island. They boarded the submarines...
Matthew A. Reluga did not take a shower after Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...
As far as Yukio Kawamoto could tell, he did not experience too much racism or ill feelings towards him. Most of his...
John Laborde was assigned to General MacArthur's [Annotator's Note: US Army General Douglas MacArthur] advance echelon...
Robert Marich's unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 11th Airborne...
After cruising around the Marshall Islands, James Moshovitis' crew was repairing the Higgins boats [Annotator's Note:...
John Marr landed in water up to his armpits on D Day after the jump [Annotators Note: into Normandy] and immediately...
Lowell Hughes first encountered Germans in Sicily, Italy. He never had any face to face contact with them but he dealt...
All Henry Langrehr knows about Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz I; Oświęcim, Poland]] is what he saw. The people...
In early 1942, John McGlohon's squadron [Annotator's Note: 3rd Photo Mapping Squadron] was assigned a mapping mission...
[Annotator's Note: Gerda Klein, who was in slave labor camp in Poland, can be very difficult to understand at points...
On 10 April [Annotator's Note: 10 April 1942], Erwin Johnson and his fellow prisoners of war started their march away [...
Rothacker Smith suffered from pains in his foot. In the Army, they would play with the explosives out of hand grenades...
Ray Anthony had contacts with 20th Century Fox because he had made movies there with “Sun Valley Serenade” [Annotator’s...
Benjamin Carson volunteered to become a Marine Raider without even knowing what that duty entailed. He was soon...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

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