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Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] felt...
Gordon Tadewaldt's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the USS PGM-1 was caught in a typhoon on their way...
James Odom remembered that most of the time he didn't know what the ship's [Annotator's Note: the USS Hyperion (AK-107...
Morris Eugene Day was a happy-go-lucky boy before the war. When he returned, he found that life was the same, but it...
Rita Brandes stayed with her sister and her husband [Annotator's Note: Brandes left Bremen, Germany as a teenager and...
Eveline Peardon and the Normandy population felt they could live again after the liberation of their region by the...
Jean "Marian" Alva Yancey Landry had a friendship with a future famous photographer, George Tames. Tames went on to...
Otis Kight had a 30 year career in the Navy. He remembers near the end of boot camp when he was given liberty [...
Erico J. Catalano's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was assigned to the machine shop. He served...
Joseph Goble's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he was hit [Annotator's Note: Goble suffered a severe...
Melvin C. Whitman had to figure out how to work with the Army when he landed on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of...
Walter Groth thought he would not have been there if it was not for the war. He was headed into certain death. He was a...
Richard F. Penwell participated in the famous Raid on Los Banos [Annotator's Note: liberation of Los Baños Internment...
Frank Borrell thinks about the men he served with. They became like members of his family. Everyone tried to be friends...
Willis Mills remembers his work on P-51s [Annotator’s Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] at Palawan [...
Vernon Leo Tyler occupied Stuttgart [Annotator's Note: Stuttgart, Germany] for several months before he came home. He...
[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...
Robert Powers enjoyed World War 2 more than the Korean War. He had a reason to go in the first war and he enjoyed the...
Because of his involvement in the war, Edward Grant does not feel like The National WWII Museum is for him. He believes...
When Julian Trist Bringier McConnell was leaving Panama for the Pacific, his PT Boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo...
Louis R. Lepore took a cruise to Washington D.C. [Annotator's Note: Washington, District of Columbia]. He saw the World...
Almost all military men drank [Annotator's Note: alcoholic beverages] as they were young. Harold Stanford Cole saw a...
George A. Sarosi suffered nightmares from his stresses. It made him a believer. The bad dreams faded over time. They do...
Garland Bath can only say the government spent a lot on him, he learned a lot of stuff, and spent a lot of time at sea...
Stella Sarnacki was laid off when the war ended. She met her husband through the mail. [Annotator’s Note: Sarnacki’s...
James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a former prisoner of war in Japan] was a product of the Depression [Annotator'...
Constance Negrotto saw a lot during the war that she had never expected to see. She helped the war effort by working...
Offered to go back to Korea, Obie Wickersham refused. He has returned to Holland three times, where the food is good,...
Jack Skaggs was changed by World War 2. He was just a boy when he entered the United States Marine Corps, but he had no...
Randolph Trappey knows that the war gave him the opportunity to do what he wanted to. He ended up working in the family...
Hana Zoltz has always had a difficult life. Even in American, life was tough. She saved her money by not eating or...
[Annotator's Note: Rosemarie Weber was an American civilian interned in the Santo Thomas internment camp in Manila,...
Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow did not see any combat [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] like his brothers did, so he...
Henry Feldman benefitted from his time in the Army. He had difficulty adjusting to having family and especially...
Perry Strait found the local population in England to be nice. He even was entertained in some of their homes. By...
The South [Annotator's Note: the Southern states in the United States] was poor and the Northern states were better off...

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