Interactions with Allied troops

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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...
Ted Wiebe said that the pilots taught all the "middle men" how to fly the TBDs [Annotator's Note: Douglas TBD...
Robert Boeke's friends Sergeant Tate [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] and Corporal Gross [Annotator's Note:...
Charles Murray was with 25 second lieutenants in the back of a truck going across France. He was a first lieutenant by...
James Paul Lynch went out to sea as officer of the deck the first time [Annotator's Note: on the USS Snook (SS-279) on...
James Paul Lynch had a wonderful experience on the Snook [Annotator's Note: USS Snook (SS-279)]. They had fine officers...
Robert Martin was taught to march and thought it was stupid [Annotator's Note: in US Navy basic training]. They went to...
Dwain Luce did not have to wait long to go home. When the war was over, each country sent their finest Divisions to...
Joseph Dean Reilly [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters, 3rd Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st...
Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...
Robert Jagers' orders were to report to Columbia University [Annotator's Note: Columbia University in New York, New...
Henry Schaller's bomber [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 FLying Fortress heavy bomber] flew at 23,000 feet. It was 33...
Rudolph C. Miller loved the Marines aboard his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Fond du Lac (APA-166)]. They were very...
James Sandoz was in Germany when the war ended. He does not recall how he heard, perhaps by an officer. They were moved...
Albert G. Sutcliffe was taken from the Battle of Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26...
When the war ended, Lorraine Doroff [Annotator's Note: while serving in the Women's Army Corps; women's branch of the...
Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...
Joseph Alter does not remember how he heard that the war was over. He was uncomfortable because that evening they left...
Carl Light and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 61st Armored Infantry Battalion, 10th Armored Division] captured...
Harley Bridger's original crew stayed together the entire war except for the bombardier. He was a young, Jewish boy...
Richard O'Hara was pissed off that he was not going home when the war ended. His wife, who was his high school...
Richard Scholl was sent back to the United States while his unit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 158th...
Henry Muller was the G-2 [Annotator’s Note: Military designation; G means general staff position; -2 stands for...
Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....
Helen Gagel was 20 years old when she was in the Philippines. She thinks the nurses get a bad name. Some of her nurses...
John Kerner crossed the Elbe River where his unit [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th Infantry Division]...
Albert G. Sutcliffe was sent to Pearl Harbor's [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] in preparation for going to the...
Archie Kelley thought much more time was going by than really was [Annotator's Note: onboard the now-torpedoed USS West...
[Annotator's Note: Malcolm Ernest was a prisoner of war at Hoten Camp, Mukden, Manchuria; present day China.] Ernest...
The first time Robert Doolan ever flew was in a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] and...
After being taken to Gestapo headquarters, Mark Rubin and his family were sent to the Sered transient camp [Annotator's...
John Wesley Tatum was in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division when they landed on...
The war did not change Raymond Kaiser a bit. He felt like he was doing his job. He was in [Annotator's Note: in the...
Jack Davis' first combat was "scary as hell". He would be walking along the hedgerows [Annotator's Note: man-made...

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