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Rosendahl, Robert Joining the Army and Deploying to the Philippines
Robert Dale Rosendahl was born in Thief River Falls, Minnesota in April 1921 and grew up in a small agricultural town....
Jett, Arley Joining the Army and Landing in Normandy
Arley Jett was born in 1922 in Breathitt County, Kentucky. He grew up in Canoe, Kentucky and near Cincinnati, Ohio....
Chaisson, Roland Joining the Army, Learning of Pearl Harbor and the Sicilian Campaign
Roland Chaisson volunteered for the Army when he was 17. He didn't like the Navy and the Marine Corps sounded too tough...
Durocher, Edmund Joining the Marine Corps
Edmund Durocher was born in Manhattan and moved to Queens when he was eight years old. He graduated from high school in...
Womack, Charles L. "Red" Joining the Marine Corps and Training
Charles Womack was born in October 1922 and grew up in McComb, Mississippi. His parents were divorced and his father...
Burgin, Romus "R.V." Joining the Marines and Overseas Deployment
Romus Burgin was born in Jewett, Texas and stayed there until he graduated high school in 1941. He joined the Marine...
Bannai, Paul Joining the Military Intelligence Service (MIS)
Paul Takeo Bannai decided to go to Washington D.C. to lobby for the inclusion of Japanese-Americans in the military. He...
Boitnott, Monty Joining the National Guard
Joe Boitnott was born Monty Joe Boitnott in April 1921 and raised in Maxwell, Iowa. Boitnott’s mother was a housekeeper...
Fisher, Clayton Joining the Navy
Clayton Fisher planned to join the Army Air Corps until a friend of his joined the Navy as an aviator. Fisher applied...
Schoonejans, Emil J. Joining the Navy and Cleared for Submarine Duty
Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...
Surratt, Carey Joining the Navy and Deploying Overseas
Carey Suratt trained at Great Lakes, Illinois. Boot camp lasted five weeks. He enjoyed boot camp. The trainees learned...
Brant, Robert Joining the Navy and Overseas Deployment
[Annotator’s Note: chit chat for the first 13 seconds of the interview] Robert Brant was born 10 October 1924 in Denver...
Lewis, Noah Joining the Navy and Overseas Deployment
Noah Lewis was drafted and inducted into the Navy in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was examined by military doctors and then...
Bethard, Orville Joining the Navy and Preparing to go to Sea
Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...
West, Gerald L. Joining the Raiders
The Marine Raiders formed from Gerald West's old battalion, the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment. The Raiders were...
Gangwere, Blanche "Blanche Gregory" Joining the Red Cross and Going Overseas
Blanche Gangwere was 26 and over the minimum age of 24 when she joined the Red Cross [Annotator's Note: American Red...
Broll, Walter Joining the US Merchant Marine
Walter Broll passed through the station [Annotator's Note: the Merchant Marine training station at Sheepshead Bay in...
Guderian, Emmett Joining the USS Independence (CVL-22)
Emmett Guderian was told he would not be able to go home before shipping out overseas. [Annotator's Note: Guderian...
Horton, Alan Joining UDT-7 and Okinawa
Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...
Witmeyer, John "J.J." Joining Up and Military Training
John Witmeyer went to enlist in the United States military the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 8...
Peto, George Joining Up and Shipping Out
George Peto was born in Akron, Ohio in 1922. He grew up in the Portage Lakes area near Akron on an old farm during the...
Beaugh, George Journey Overseas, Unit Assignment and Preparing for Missions
George Beaugh recalled that his crew took the Northern route to England. Since the weather was so bad, they had to stop...
Langrehr, Henry Jump School to England
Henry Langrehr had heard about the paratroopers. When he went to join, he told them that is what he wanted. At that...
Billingsley, James Jump Training to Luzon
James Billingsley was at Fort Benning [Annotator's Note: Fort Benning, Georgia] in an area called The Frying Pan. The...
Hirabayashi, Grant Jungle Training in India
Grant Jiro Hirabayashi was very confused after visiting his family in an internment camp but returned to Fort Snelling...
Howard, William Just Sheer Terror
William Edwin Howard loved his trip overseas on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo...
Cale, Sterling Korean War
Sterling Cale was sent to Korea near Pusan while the rest of the transferred troops went to Sasebo, Japan. He was with...
Armstrong, Henry Landing in Europe
Henry Armstrong expected to go overseas. He thought he was going to the Philippines due having trained with mules. Once...
Mancuso, Frank Landing in North Africa
During the overseas voyage Frank Mancuso was in charge of checking the tie downs, therefore he had privileged access to...
Higgins, Richard Landing on Guadalcanal and Rations
Richard Higgins occasionally wants to forget what he has seen. Higgins remembers being on Cape Gloucester hiding behind...
Montalbano, Mickey Landing on Okinawa
The war in the Pacific was still raging when Mickey Montalbano shipped out on the USS Jason (AR-8). He stopped in...
Lindquist, Donald Law, the Korean War and the McCarthy Era
Donald Lindquist was an officer in the US Merchant Marine. After the war, he went to school for Business Administration...
Earles, John LCVP Instructor on Guam
In May 1945, John Earles deployed to a tent city in Hawaii, and from there he was sent to Guam. At the time, the island...
McGovern, George Learning from the War
The experience of seeing the kids wanting American candy, and the subsequent revelation of the ship that had passed...
Hughes, Lowell Learning of Pearl Harbor to Arriving in Oran
Lowell Hughes was stationed at Camp Barkeley near Abilene, Texas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. A supply...
Varner, Joel Learning to Fly
[Annotator's Note: Joel Varner went on active duty in the Army Air Corps in February 1943.] Varner joined the Army Air...

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