Feelings toward enemies

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Freeman Dyson considers strategic bombing in World War 2 to be a mistake. A decision was made in 1936 to emphasize that...
[Annotator's Note: Vernon Wold fought in the Battle of Struth, Thuringia, Germany on 7 April 1945.] When the German...
William Hill was assigned to the USS Bonefish (SS-223) in the role of the quartermaster. After a very successful first...
Donald Scholle was proud to have served on the USS Spadefish (SS-411). He did not like the second skipper who drove the...
The day after this last action there was hardly anyone left in Jack Houston's company [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd...
[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) and took part in the...
Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan, China as part of the 21st Photo...
Frank Fontana was a supply sergeant [Annotator's Note: in the 93rd Medical Gas Treatment Battalion]. He had access to...
Bryghte Davis Godbold received several Red Cross shipments while incarcerated by the Japanese. The packages were most...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a woman off camera interjects with comments.] James Ramsey Golden recalls that...
Bruno S. Rinas believes that had the Americans been given better training and equipment, they would have held out...
During the surrender, Bruno S. Rinas was sick, or he would have run into the hills. He discussed it with some comrades...
Harold Bergbower joined three Filipino Scouts who had been released from their duties in order to escape from Bataan. [...
When the Tuol Pocket was closed, Ben Skardon's company [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 92nd Infantry...
While on forward observation with Task Force Sugar, Robert Gorman received a stack of mail from home. He learned that...
Fernando Serna was treated harshly by the Japanese immediately after the surrender of Corregidor. He saluted a Japanese...
Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines on Wake Island felt that they would be killed after capture. A World War 1 veteran...
In April 1942, John Edward Love [Annotator's Note: with the 200th Coastal Artillery Regiment] was in a foxhole along...
Murray Stein was injured during the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive...
Erwin Johnson was involved in the defense of Bataan, Philippines and thought that the Japanese were just going to push...
Glenn Frazier heard Tokyo Rose broadcast to the defenders of the Philippines that no reinforcements were on the way. [...
Day-to-day, Herman Pbert just tried to stay alive, find food, and get ammunition. C4s [Annotator's Note: Composition C-...
After liberating Rome, Italy, Don Tallon and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Infantry...
Richard Witaker heard the Japanese propaganda from Tokyo Rose only once. That was when he had gone to the rear for food...
When David Thomason was at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...
Once it was captured by the Russian Army, Berlin was divided into four sectors [Annotator's Note: the Soviets took...
On 2 March 1945, Eugene Vaadi and his crew were shot down over Dresden, Germany. Once a prisoner of war, he was...
Judith Baron was put into a barrack at Auschwitz. Every morning and evening they were made to go outside and stand in...
Bluma Polonski remembers life in Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp...
Leona Kleiner reflects on the individuals who survived [Annotator's Note: Kleiner spent over three years in the...
Zhanna Dawson stayed with her benefactor who took her into his home [Annotator's Note: Dawson was hired to help the...
Ralph “Bud” Ginrich had little to do for entertainment as a prisoner of war (POW). Some men played cards. There were no...
Walter Broll was told by one of the officers on the Grace Abbott that he should go to the English aid station at the...
For Robert Rosendahl, fear is what kept him going during the Bataan Death March. The Japanese were barbarians. Very few...
According to Joseph DeMott, Americans were not beaten as badly as the other prisoners. Personally, he used "his brains...
[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. about the type of weapon he...

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