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[Annotator’s Note: The video glitches throughout the segment.] Roy D. Goad and his twin brother, Ray’s, National Guard...
William Earl Gast was sent to Camp Shanks [Annotator's Note: in Orangetown, New York] for embarkation. While he waited...
The men of the 506th [Annotator's Note: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division] were sent to...
In October 1943, George F. Mills was shipped overseas and stationed in South Wales [Annotator's Note: South Wales,...
In 1944, Walter Joseph Patrick Curley Junior trained in maneuvers, amphibious invasion training, and other physical...
Lloyd Dendy went from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] to Oahu, Hawaii to the old Camp Catlin which...
[Annotator's Note: There is audio feedback noise throughout this clip.] Gilbert H. Howland and his outfit [Annotator's...
Donald Evans docked in Mers-el-Kebir [Annotator's Note: Mers-el-Kébir, Oran, Algeria] in North Africa. They were told...
John Singlaub had a specific OSS [Annotator's Note: Office of Strategic Services, pre-runner of the Central...
Dominic Geraci was drafted in February 1943. His dad did not feel much about his being drafted. His mom was more upset...
Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox went through boot camp in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California], and was...
Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] was trained in Virginia for a...
Benjamin Albert Glusing's men [Annotator's Note: in the 208th Military Police Company] saved themselves, other men,...
Howard Anderson's crew was given a new airplane, 271, and his crew nicknamed it "Last Resort II." The missions to...
Carl Landwehr was transferred to the 8th Air Force in High Wycombe [Annotator's Note: 8th Air Force Bomber Command...
Carl Landwehr was transferred from the 8th Air Force in England to the 9th Air Force in Frankfurt, Germany. He was put...
Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 2nd Marine Division] moved up to the next island because there...
James Warren David recalled always having the supplies they needed while living on the island [Annotator's Note: on...
Manfred Klepper and his mother got off the airplane and entered the Moscow terminal [Annotator's Note: they had...
Judah Samet was sent to a large lumber yard [Annotator's Note: The first attempted deportation from Debrecen, Hungary...
Peter Hebert served on Manicani Island [Annotator’s Note: Manicani Island, Leyte, the Philippines] after the war where...
Kenneth F. Thomas was captured by the Germans one night. One was an SS [Annotator's Note: Schutzstaffel; German...
[Annotator’s Note: Can hear airplanes flying overhead throughout segment.] From January until July 1945, John R....
After finishing his training, John Snyder was assigned to the USS Harry Lee (APA-10), which transported troops to North...
Lawrence John Lejeune was a Merchant Marine sailor on a liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced...
Alfred Pierse Murphy would be briefed on missions [Annotator's Note: the missions he flew with the 322nd Bombardment...
W. P. “Bill” Allen was a Navy medic assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]. He developed...
Frank Golemi was sent to the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center [Annotator's Note: Now Lackland Air Force Base, a part...
John T. Fallon and the men [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat Regiment] had to make...
Alexander Jefferson volunteered for service in order to avoid the draft. If he had been drafted he would have been a...
Fred Gordon remembers two near death experiences during his combat [Annotator's Note: Gordon was an officer in Battery...
The missions James Kemp McLaughlin flew without fighter cover were much tougher missions. When they took off, P-47s [...
Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...
The USS Denver (CL-58) was at Okinawa, Japan at the end of the war to protect the hospital ships. Thomas Tizzard...
Walter Henry Barton’s job with his regiment [Annotator’s Note: Barton was a member of Cannon Company, 361st Infantry...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert G. Aldous if he was religious when he went to war.] He was and then was...

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