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Sullivan Tindal and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company I, 3rd Battalion, 259th Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry...
Paul Arst joined his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 120th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division...
[Annotator's Note: Vernon Squire was in the 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 29th Infantry Division.] They fired far...
Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...
Jerome "Jerry" Riga assisted with ground support for the infantry and tank divisions [Annotator's Note: as a Republic P...
Allen Pedersen, as First Sergeant, was responsible for running the company [Annotator's Note: Pedersen served in the...
[Annotator’s Note: During this segment, interviewee asks a woman off camera questions, and she sometimes comes into the...
Philip Whitman first flew in June 1943. It was very difficult for him, but he blamed his instructor. He could feel his...
Charles T. Edwards recalled that he was put on Hunter-Killer missions [Annotator's Note: anti-submarine missions...
What Joseph McGuire took to India was all he had for the duration of his duty. Many of the crews had no cold weather...
Don Tallon was taken to Stalag II-B, near Hammerstein [Annotator's Note: Stalag II-B in Hammerstein, Pomerania, now...
Edgar R. "Ross" Forman [Annotator's Note: serving with Company A, 319th Engineer Combat Battalion, 94th Infantry...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...
James Albert Kitts landed in France [Annotator's Note: on 13 December 1944] and it was not cold, just muddy. It got...
Lester Shapiro's experience before getting to Burma [Annotator's Note: present day Myanmar], was guarding some oil...
Otis Gatewood's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Armored Division] came...
[Annotator’s Note: The video glitches and the video and sound are sometimes not synchronized throughout the segment.]...
On the twelfth day of combat, Don Carter's squad [Annotator's Note: in Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th...
Hilar Moore was shipped to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] after the invasion started. He took...
On landing in Hollandia New Guinea, Ogden Saik was impressed by the dominance of the American Navy. There were ships...
Arturo Camacho remembers going down to the docks, and coming away with a canteen full of brown sugar that had been...
The Red Ball Express hauled the troops around and it was almost completely made of black drivers. When they got ready...
Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...
Richard Jaccarino cited the dedication of his platoon leader, mentioning that the man had been wounded earlier on Leyte...
[Annotator's Note: Wilhelm Gehlen was a boy growing up in Viersen, Germany during World War 2.] Wilhelm Gehlen's father...
Edward Moore Penick, a pilot in the Army Air Corps, was sent overseas to Sichuan and Guilin, China as part of the 21st...
Wallace Hurley contracted pneumonia during the Battle of the Bulge. He was in the hospital for four days. Following his...
Lewis Guidry crossed the Rhine River near the Remagen Bridge [Annotator's Note: the Ludendorff Bridge in the city of...
Vincent Losada was commissioned as a flight officer after he received all his training. He was sent to Drew Air Force...
Ed Weber was on furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in Dallas [Annotator's...
After the Germans surrendered, Seymour Mermelstein was part of rounding them up to send back to Germany. [Annotator's...
Sidney Philips remembers someone being perfect. He was handsome, young, and the girls loved him. Phillips tells...
One of the guys in the group with Dominic Martello went and got a scalp from one of the Germans that crashed in the...
Lester Hull was born in Hartford, Connecticut in April 1920. He remembers the Great Depression well. Hull's father was...
Anthony Bianconi was in dry dock [Annotator's Note: as a musician and ammunition bearer on the USS Philadelphia (CL-41...
Walter Bala and others would use bicycles as a mode of transportation on base [Annotator's note: RAF Old Buckenham,...

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