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Richard Nummer experienced the brutality of war on Iwo Jima. He and his buddies witnessed Japanese soldiers lying with...
Fred Whitaker went to the 50th Anniversary of Victory in Europe Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May...
A.C. Thomas thought the German soldiers were too young. Most of them were teenagers. He was in Germany when the war...
Samuel W. Smith remembers when the war ended in Europe, bombers were needed in the Pacific. There were 65 crews picked...
[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] Hall and his squadron [...
Edward Stone was aboard the USS Bumper (SS-333) after its first war patrol when it entered Subic Bay in the Philippines...
William Banghart drove a lieutenant in a general’s jeep. This could have led to a court martial. Banghart was in the...
William Epperson and his battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division]...
Horace Sharp and his squad [Annotator's Note: 1st Squad, 1st Platoon, Company B, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment...
Sam S. McKeel served in the Navy as a fire director controlman on the forward twin 40 mm Bofors guns [Annotator's Note...
Robert L. Donovan remembers that the Filipinos would take the leftovers from the soldiers after they would liberate an...
Joseph Brannan remembered that the PT-305 had three engines but after living on it for about a year, he could not...
Lloyd Augustus Chamblin, Jr. knew most of the men in his squadron [Annotator's Note: Marine Scout Bombing Squadron 133...
Floyd James Reissig was in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] when the war ended. When he got...
When Japan surrendered, Martin Brignac was on Ie-Shima working on an airstrip. He and another man decided to build a...
Charles Moore was stationed in Orleans, France at the end of the war. He enjoyed the experience there. He had a...
Theodore Robert Tanner was in the Philippines when the nuclear bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...
Basil Woolf looked about after the action at Walcheren Island and, to his dismay, only his ship [Annotator's Note: LCH-...
Jerome "Jerry" Riga completed over 40 missions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot] in...
John McConn experienced the end of the war in Europe while he was guarding a displaced persons camp. [Annotator’s Note...
Neil Cox made it through the Siegfried Line [Annotator's Note: a series of defensive fortifications roughly paralleling...
The last day of the war in Italy for Howard T. Maki was in early May 1945. It was VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in...
It took George Kays’ unit [Annotator’s Note: 136th Field Artillery Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] 48 hours to set up...
James Craig was right at the Rhine River when the war shifted. They were guarding an electric dam. It was 1944 in...
When it came time to leave Burma [Annotator's Note: now Myanmar], Robert Lippman was told he would be part of the lead...
When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...
Otto Kirkpatrick thought England was nice. The English welcomed them. It was another culture. He had flown to London [...
Edward O. Wood, Senior was assigned to the submarine tender, USS Holland (AS-3), as a replacement radio man. Their main...
Joseph Simpson witnessed little resistance after his unit crossed the Rhine River. There were hardly any battles. The...
Joseph Mittelsdorf was assigned to the 5th Marine Division. He was in the rear echelon for the Battle of Iwo Jima [...
William O’Brien remembers that they ate well on the battleship. They had a small refrigerator. They checked all the...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hum throughout the interview.] Charles William "Tom" Clark rode tanks up the...
Richard "Dick" Loges [Annotator's Note: with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division...
Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: with SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] thought the war...
Kenneth H. Bailey was close to the concentration camps but were not to liberate them. The Colonel would tell Bailey...
Robert J. Hutchings was assigned as a stenographer under the command of General Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General...

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