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Irene Bartley and her twin sister, Jean, joined the WACs [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...
When Benjamin Hagans was on the ship coming back, his teeth started to settle. He put on 17 pounds in three weeks. He...
The first treatment Carroll Harris received was heat lamps on his legs. However, his legs and feet began blistering, so...
Besides the atomic tests, F. Lincoln Grahlfs found other work to do while at Bikini Atoll [Annotator's Note: Bikini...
Erwin Blonder was sent to a hospital in Illinois for his trench foot. He remembers another incident regarding his...
After one patrol during which he was carrying a heavy BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle], Richard...
Melvin Linkous was riding in a two and a half ton truck [Annotator's Note: two and a half ton, six by six truck, also...
Cleatus Lebow believes that, although the contents of the crate they carried to was top secret, speculation among the...
On 19 June 1944, Larris Duhon [Annotator’s Note: Assigned to the 300th Engineer Combat Battalion] loaded onto USS LST-...
Carl Beck had been wounded in Bastogne, Belgium and laid on a stretcher all night. He made it back to his outfit [...
Towards the end of World War 2, John Carruth, serving in the Navy, was sent to Jacksonville [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee has difficulty speaking at times throughout the segment.] Rawley R. Hill [Annotator’s...
George E. Budlong was born in 1927 in Providence, Rhode Island. Budlong calls himself a child of the Depression [...
After six weeks in a hospital, Vernon Brantley was put in a replacement unit. He missed out on the Colmar expedition [...
After the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter Offensive, 16 December...
Upon returning to the United States, J.D. Graddy was sent to Thayer General Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee to...
Frederick Freeman [Annotator's Note: serving in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry...
Burton Lewis entered Germany and helped set up a factory to manufacture netting in preparation for the crossing of the...
[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...
Togue Uchida [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team] spent Thanksgiving [...
J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was in a hospital recovering from wounds when he learned about the end of war in Europe. He was...
Stanley Fagerstrom got sick in the Philippines. He hurt his back on the island of Morotai [Annotator’s Note: Morotai...
Kenneth Barnette was wounded in Europe only after a month of being in combat. He was sent to Southampton, England to...
Floyd James Reissig was in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] when the war ended. When he got...
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...
Charles Moore was stationed in Orleans, France at the end of the war. He enjoyed the experience there. He had a...
Robert Dannehl was a radio operator [Annotator’s Note: on the USS Hubbard (DE-211)]. He got liberty [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: Leslie Cruise continually refers to a book that he has off camera.] During the Battle of the Bulge [...
Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...
After being wounded in Belgium, Bradford Clark Freeman was sent back to England and didn't return to his company [...
Earl Roger Liston found refuge with the 3rd Armored Division in Eupen, Belgium [Annotator's Note: after he avoided...
In April 1945, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. was wounded and was recovering in the hospital. He was given penicillin by...
Bane Cook went to Great Lakes, Illinois [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Great Lakes in Lake County, Illinois] for...
[Annotator’s Note: Can hear someone in the background throughout this segment.] Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to...
Paul Kerchum, a prisoner of the Japanese, was forced to work in the Mitsubishi mine number 11 [Annotator’s Note: in...
Raleigh W. Johnson Jr. served in the Navy near the end of World War 2. He attended Wright Junior College [Annotator’s...

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