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Boitnott, Monty Anzio to Monte Cassino
Monty Joe Boitnott was on tour [Annotators Note: on an overseas tour of duty] for 16 months. The only member of...
Hoff, Russell D. Bad Orb
Russell Hoff reached Bad Orb and was assigned to a barracks in the camp. When a group of Americans killed a German...
Boreen, Roy S. “Swede” Becoming a Sailor
Roy Boreen was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1920. During the Great Depression, his father worked as a cement...
Phillips, Sidney Going Home and Leaving Sledge on Pavuvu
Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...
Pena, William Hurtgen Part 1
William Pena remembers how his battalion commander was a gung-ho, brave, and tall man who refused to stay at the rear...
Milkis, Abe Invasion of Normandy
Abe Milkis landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on D-Day. Rather than entering France as a...
Grant, Olen "Reb" Repatriation
Olen Grant spent Christmas 1943 in a prison camp. For Grant, the holidays were just like any other day. Some of the...
Dymnicki, Francis Returning Home
Francis Dymnicki boarded a ship in England right after V-E Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945] to...
Mancuso, Frank Reunions and Post War Life
During one of his breaks in Sicily, Frank Mancuso wrote a letter that was never answered. When he came back to the...
Livaudais, James Screw Ups
James Livaudais remembers some of the men in his company who were not exactly the best soldiers. One was named James...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 1
Monpat was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to E.D. White High School for one year then quit and went...
Rogers, Ernest Segment 10
They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] let some of the Red Cross packages go to pot. They would put them in store house...
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 10
James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...
Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 12
Jack feels that World War II is important enough that they shouldn't take it out of the history books. He felt it was...
Bell, Bryan Segment 2
At Ft. Benning, Bell ended up training with the 79th Infantry Division. As an officer, Bell remembers going through...
Bacon, Giles Segment 2
Giles Bacon remained at Merritt Island for five months before transferring to Quantico, Virginia. He then transferred...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 2
Galloway lost his radio at one point and had to join up with another radio operator. Galloway recalls one afternoon...
Nyman, Geraldine "Geri" Segment 4
Geraldine Nyman only knows one girl from the second graduating class of WASPs. At the time of this interview, Nyman was...
Hawk, John Segment 5
After leaving the aid station [Annotator’s Note: near Chambois, France on August 20, 1944] Hawk was looked at by...
Crain, Joe Segment 5
The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 5
Galloway was able to write back home which was nice. Galloway's parents found out that he was in a POW camp because of...
Armanini, Joseph Segment 5
Joseph Armanini describes explaining why he missed the target from the previous mission to Colonel Harding [Annotators...
Hurd, Francis Segment 6
For Hurd, the most difficult part of the war was crossing the beachhead onto French soil because they didn't know what...
Duchossois, Richard Segment 6
Richard Duchossois and his company were set up on the south eastern tip of the Bulge [Annotators Note: during the The...
Baynham, James Segment 6
Baynham recalls writing a couple of postcards per month. His folks wrote a lot but he only received a couple of letters...
Lazarick, Len Segment 7
They had a couple of rainy days in April [Annotator's Note: April 1945] but the rains got heavy after Lazarick left. He...
Greer, Richard Segment 8
Richard Greer was in the hospital when John Basilone was awarded the Medal of Honor. Greer was supposed to have been in...
Martello, Dominic Segment 8
One of the guys in the group with Martello went and got a scalp from one of the Germans that crashed in the mountains....
Peterson, Carl Segment 9
Peterson went into the Battle of the Bulge near Aachen [Annotator’s Note: in Germany]. He was only there three days. He...
Brown, Roscoe Segment 9
Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film Red Tails where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a war...
Barnes, Walter Walking Across Italy
Walter Barnes was sent to pick up some German prisoners. When he got to the enemy troops there were about a dozen of...
A female soldier inspects film during the processing of V-mail in Papua New Guinea in 1944
V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "After processing the film is taken to inspection where it is carefully...
A female soldier processes mail in Papua New Guinea in 1944
A WAC seated at a table handling the mail with a Tech Sgt. seated in the next chair looking at the camera. "John's...
A group of women insert letters into envelopes during V-mail processing in Papua New Guinea in 1944
V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "This is a view of the inserting and sealing. At the long table the girls...
A man repairs a Recordak camera used during the processing of V-mail in Papua New Guinea in 1944
V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "View of the maintenance department at the Station with one of the men...
A man splices paper being loaded into a machine during V-mail processing in Papua New Guinea in 1944
V-mail operation in the field at APO 929. "View of the paper processing machine. On these machines the entire paper...

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