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Once Anthony Stefanelli's unit [Annotator's Note: 36th Engineer Combat Regiment] had resupplied, they set out for...
Before the war, Arthur Davis worked in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana] building a plant near the...
Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...
Roger Shaw was assigned to the SS George Gayle on the Industrial Canal while it was still being completed by the...
Chester Strunk received only half the Red Cross parcels allocated to the prisoners. The Germans supplemented that food...
Chester Strunk was transported by train from an interrogation center in Budapest to Stalag Luft III at Zagan near...
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was transported by passenger train to Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft III in...
In 1936, Ralph F. Lafferty's oldest brother decided to join the military and worked with the CCC [Annotator's Note:...
Roy H. Matsumoto returned to the United States and served five years in each of two separate locations. He had a good...
Robert Boeke [Annotator's Note: with the 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division] went to Manila [Annotator's...
[Annotator's Note: An off-camera male interjects throughout this clip.] Carl Robert Gatlin and his regiment [Annotator'...
Wilbur Lee Jackson knew the deck gun [Annotator’s Note: five inch, 25 caliber naval gun aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287...
Herman Prager would rise from his bunk on the boat depending on which watch he was assigned to perform. If he had the...
Herman Prager left for United States Navy boot camp in San Diego, California after the Christmas and New Year holidays...
Alfred Dearman says that Sugamo Prison [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] was the largest, most modern prison in Japan...
Ralph “Bud” Ginrich had little to do for entertainment as a prisoner of war (POW). Some men played cards. There were no...
After the Battle of the Bulge, Obie Wickersham went back to France, only to be sent back to the front between...
Taken captive, Virgil Faust went with the farmer to his house, and an older girl went off on a bicycle to alert the...
In the spring of 1945, John Coxe's 63rd Infantry Division went on the offensive, and his superior, Brigadier General...
Bringing to mind a long past event, James Lovell talked about when he was at the Naval Academy and attended the 1948...
Home base for William Beaman and the USS Flasher (SS-249) was Perth, Australia. At the end of a two month mission, the...
Guy Stern was present in April 1945 when the allies liberated the German army prison at Torgau [Annotator's Note:...
The soldiers were appreciative of the nurses. In England, Irma Darphin worked as a mail censor at night. There were 100...
In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...
There was ongoing correspondence with people back home, and John Caraway was able to keep abreast of what was going on...
Dawn Higgins Murphy [Annotator's Note: the daughter of Andrew Jackson Higgins, the owner of Higgins Industries in New...
Guy Leefe, Jr. was in Lemgo, Germany when the war ended. Prior to that, Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: US Army General,...
Lowell Hughes thought he would be home by 4 July 1945. When his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 120th Engineer...
James William Grimes [Annotator's Note: assigned to Carrier Aircraft Service Unit 45 (CASU 45) aboard the USS Hornet (...
Robert Cahoon briefly stayed on Biak in the Netherlands East Indies [Annotator's Note: in May 1944, Cahoon left New...
After finishing training [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
At the Siegfried Line [Annotator's Note: a series of defensive fortifications built by Germany in the 1930s], the...
Robert Boeke's friends Sergeant Tate [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] and Corporal Gross [Annotator's Note:...
The last war for Holocaust Survivor Daniel Szafran was the 1956 war. [Annotator's Note: The Suez Crisis, or Second Arab...
Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...
Paul J. Frisco felt comfortable around some of the officers on the USS Cushing (DD-797). With others, he was not as...

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