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Roberts, George The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Heavy Bomber
[Annotator's Note: George Roberts served in the USAAF as a radio operator and gunner aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress...
Reilly, Joseph The Catholic Chaplain
Joseph Dean Reilly thinks it is important to have the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans...
Saloom, Kaliste The Counter Intelligence Corps and Reflections
Kaliste Saloom and his Counter Intelligence Corps, or CIC, detachment was assigned to Allied headquarters in Algiers...
Jackson, James The Draft, Training, and Service
James Thomas Jackson was 15 years old and in high school when Pearl Harbor was attacked [Annotator's Note: the Japanese...
Peto, George The Future
George Peto served with the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division in the Pacific Theater during World...
Taylor, Claude The G.I. Bill and Service During the Korean War
Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...
Lee, James The Korean War
James Lee could not fight in World War 2, but when the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27...
Whitaker, Harold The Korean War
Harold Whitaker went overseas in 1949. He was at Johnson Air Force Base in Japan when the Korean War began. After the...
Cox, Neil "Jack" The Korean War
Neil Cox remembers the Germans would take hostages from the school his wife went to. They would take all the Jewish...
Stewart, William The Korean War
William Stewart was sent to Washington state to work on the radar in flying box cars. He made corporal as an auto...
Scales, James The Korean War
The Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 through 1953] broke out in June 1950 and James Shelton Scales did not realize he...
Burkle, Henry The Korean War
Henry Burkle was in charge of periodic maintenance [Annotator’s Note: referring to his service during the Korean War,...
Dendy, Lloyd The Korean War and Parting Thoughts
Lloyd Dendy met the toughest guy ever in Korea. He had been hit in the cheek by shrapnel and lost a lot of his teeth....
Winter, William The Last Good War
William Winter recognized during his OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] class how important education was...
Walter, Robert The people you meet at the front
[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
Luers, Harold The War Ends
Harold Luers traveled through Europe during World War 2 [Annotator's Note: with the Regimental Headquarters, 347th...
Beard, Oral The War Ends
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...
Luce, Dwain The War Ends
Dwain Luce did not have to wait long to go home. When the war was over, each country sent their finest Divisions to...
Hill, Jennings The War Ends
Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. learned the war had ended by radio. The ships were having a big time and celebrating. The weird...
Kaiser, Raymond Thoughts About the War
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...
Bucksell, Norris Thoughts on the War
Norris Bucksell says that Rome, Italy is hard to beat. The war ending was great, but Rome was the best. Even the buses...
Angst, Lawrence Thoughts on War
As a medic, Lawrence Angst saw a lot. Grave Registration used to get to him. They would come along with trucks and fill...
Hopkins, Ralph Thoughts on World War Two
Ralph Hopkins felt people thought that World War 1 was the war to end all wars. Yet, there will always be someone like...
Colburn, George Thrown in the Brig and Going Home
The Chinese would grab people on the streets and hand them over to the Americans if they were Japanese. George Colburn...
Tadewaldt, Gordon Time in the Pacific and Shanghai
Gordon Tadewaldt recalled that the USS PGM-1 had patrol duty around the Philippines. He recalled the kamikaze attacks...
Pbert, Herman To America and the Army
Herman Pbert was in the hospital as the war was ending. He was told he had done a good job cleaning his own shrapnel...
Little, Henry To Korea
Henry Little joined the National Guard after World War 2 ended. He went into the combat engineers and went to Camp...
Lauderdale, Dell Tour in Japan
Dell Lauderdale was on a ship for 14 days en route to Japan. He woke up and saw little people scurrying around and...
David, James Transferred to the USS Palm (AN-28)
James Warren David recalled always having the supplies they needed while living on the island [Annotator's Note: on...
Moret, Calvin Tuskegee Training
Calvin Moret saw about half of his Tuskegee flight class dropout of training. That was about on par with that of the...
Aldous, Robert US Air Force versus the US Army Air Corps
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert G. Aldous if he was religious when he went to war.] He was and then was...
Rorschach, Robert USS Pickaway (APA-222)
Robert L. Rorschach was a member of the radar crew on the Pickaway [Annotator's Note: USS Pickaway (APA-222)] which was...
Curran, Philip USS Salem (CA-149)
Philip Curran volunteered for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953]. He has often...
Gomez, Hewitt VE-Day and Postwar
Hewitt Brian Gomez was called [Annotator's Note: called back to active duty] to serve during the Korean War, but he was...
Johnson, James Vietnam War
James Johnson came back to the United States and was supposed to go to an advanced course. They pulled him out and put...
Severance, Dave Vivid Memories, Occupation Duty and Service in Later Wars
Besides the flag raising, Dave Severance's most vivid memory was the loss of troops. They knew that the Japanese were...

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