Interactions with Allied troops

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Robert G. Aldous flew from Canton Island [Annotator's Note: Canton Island, Phoenix Islands, Republic of Kiribati] to...
After Henry T. Meyer graduated from high school, he enlisted in the service and went to boot camp where he received...
John Alison flew into China in a worn out P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft] that was...
Marthe Cohn was able to make a living until she joined the Army [Annotator's Note: First French Army in November 1944...
Marthe Cohn was finally was able to join the French Army in Paris in November 1944 once Poitiers, France had been...
After joining the French Army, Marthe Cohn wanted to visit the troops at the front in Alsace, France. She knew the...
Justus Rosenberg [Annotator’s Note: interned by the Vichy Regime, faked an illness to get out of the detention center,...
By 17, Herman Pbert was a construction engineer [Annotator's Note: in Piedicavallo, Italy]. In the meantime, the war...
Robert Martin wanted to join the Navy because his friend had gone in before he did. He was a year or two older than him...
John Treen met a friend at College Inn [Annotator's Note: Ye Olde College Inn Restaurant, New Orleans, Louisiana] one...
[Annotator's Note: David Cawley is very difficult to understand and follow throughout this clip. Cawley joined the Navy...
Lorraine Doroff signed up for the Women Auxiliary Army [Annotator's Note: Women's Army Auxiliary Army Corps or WAAC;...
Dorothy Wuestner Morgan joined the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis did not know there was anything different than segregation. She had everything she needed...
Jacques Brewster Smith and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...
Henry Langrehr had heard about the paratroopers. When he went to join, he told them that is what he wanted. At that...
James Billingsley was at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia] in an area called The Frying Pan. The...
After Normandy [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Joseph Dean Reilly...
Gerard Dillon was fully loaded, had his face darkened, and was ready to go [Annotator's Note: on 4 June 1944]. About...
John Singlaub was nervous about parachuting into France, but, even so, his team was not ineffectual. Prior to the jump...
Sometime in August [Annotator's Note: August 1944], Joseph Lesniewski and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd...
Robert W. "Bob" O'Connor [Annotator's Note: a communications sergeant in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute...
[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski joined Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne...
Samuel Spector thought the Kachin people were diverse. They were from various areas. Some were very smart and others...
The closer Carey Suratt got to Japan, the more aggressive things became. On his second trip to Leyte, the 459 [...
Sterling Baker was on the invasion of Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands]. When he was in Leyte [...
Normand F. Gallichant was preparing to hit the beaches of Japan just before the war ended. Defenses in Japan would have...
One of Curtis Winfred Wise's brothers was in the service. They did not talk much about it. He did talk to his parents...
Alan Moskin was a scout. Scouts go in ahead of the outfit to make sure the outfit does not get ambushed. Two men are...
Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division] watched...
Edward F. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)] were selected to go to Italy...
Guy Stern returned to the United States in November 1945. A French count recommended him for a decoration by France....
[Annotator's Note: Richard Willett was in Camp Lucky Strike near Le Havre, France.] They finally left Lucky Strike and...
Richard Asbury flew both in Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953] and Vietnam [Annotator's Note: Vietnam...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Helene Bouton to talk about life in a concentration camp.] There was only one...
As the war was nearing its end, some of William Cart's friends were sent to China but he went up to the Roi fighter...

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