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Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...
Donald Lewis was taken to Glasgow [Annotator's Note: Glasgow, Scotland]. They were issued gas masks. In World War 1,...
After Marvin Raymond Graham was released from the hospital [Annotator's Note: in Wendling, England], he was sent to a...
Four days prior to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...
On 23 February [Annotator's Note: 23 February 1945] they were out [Annotator's Note: of the Los Baños internment camp...
Erna Deiglmayr tried to contact people she had not been in touch with for a long time when the war ended. She had...
Edward Dunne [Annotator's Note: a crewmen aboard the USS LST-53] has no particular memory of D-Day [Annotator's Note: D...
Roy Stewart thinks about Iwo Jima every day [Annotator's Note: he was with the 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...
Edwin Sved’s wife mentions that they met and married in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania],...
Kenneth R. Williams’ [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...
[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...
Gate Tate knew he would be drafted so he volunteered in order to be able to select the branch that he would serve in....
John Koenigsberg was picked up by the underground and his parents did not know where he was. After the war, his parents...
Angus Lorenzen, his sister and mother left Manila, Philippines aboard the SS John Lykes and were repatriated to San...
Darold Rice remembers boarding the ship to head back to the USA after the war was over. He joined up with a random...
Robert Boeke was traveling in Amsterdam [Annotator's Note: Amsterdam, Holland] for the 75th Anniversary [Annotator's...
Clarence Derrington recounts meeting an individual in a stalag [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war camp] that was from...
After they got into Rome and were interrogated, Floyd Dumas and Bill Robb went their separate ways. They stayed in...
When Wallace Yip, Sr. came into New York Harbor [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] there were fireworks. He went to...
Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce was asked by John [Annotator's Note: she had met John Joyce when he was on occupation duty in...
Benjamin Lesser experienced a horrific raid on the Bochnia Ghetto. Afterward, loud speakers demanded that anyone left...
Arles J. Doss was north of Dallas [Annotator's Note: Dallas, Texas] when Germany surrendered. When the Germans...
Norman Bussel was wandering around Moosburg, Germany after being liberated. He stayed with soldiers who were driving...
When they [Annotator's Note: Walter Imahara and many of the other Japanese-Americans interned at the Jerome War...
Shiyuza Hayashi walked to Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy] with his unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 100th...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Campbell about the relationship between President Franklin Delano...
Charles Wesley Borders heard about Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the...
Older male workers would cater to the young women like June Tinker who came into the work force. The men would flirt...
Rufus Harris signed up for Navy ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] because his dad anticipated the...
While at the University of Alabama [Annotator's Note: in Tuscaloosa, Alabama], Herndon Inge, Junior was in the infantry...
Donald L. Beeghly was born in Sabetha, Kansas in May 1925. His father worked for Union Pacific but was laid off during...
[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...
Robert Rupp did not really feel animosity towards the Nazi soldiers. He did not come across any concentration camps....
Hana Zoltz arrived at Auschwitz by train. Many people had died during the forced journey. They were confined in the...
Running is in Ernest "Ernie" Andrus' nature. He has been a runner most of his life. He ran his first 200 mile relay...
[Annotator's Note: Audio popping sounds can be heard throughout this segment.] Robert W. "RW" Pratt, assigned as the...

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