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James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 1
James was born in North Texas in Aberdene. The town is no longer there. He lived there until he was 10 years old. His...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 1
Vejtasa and the interviewer are getting acquainted and set out how the interview will be conducted. The interviewer...
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 1
Baum served with the 4th Armored Division during WWII. He was born in New York and grew up in the Bronx. His father was...
Mann, Karl Segment 1
Mann was born in Germany in 1925 and came to the United States in 1936. His father got a job at an American University....
McClellan, James Segment 1
James McClellan served in the 755th Field Artillery Battalion, 15th Army.He was born in West Virginia. His father...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 1
Baptiste was born in Saint James Parish, Louisiana on 4 November 1916. He is in town [Annotator's Note: New Orleans]...
Keema, John Segment 1
[Annotator’s Note: The interview begins with John Keema telling the interviewer about how not flying the Regensburg...
Johnson, Oscar Segment 1
Oscar Johnson was born in November 1925 in Pompano Beach, Florida. He had two brothers and a sister. His parents were...
Earnest, Albert J. Segment 1
Earnest was born in Richmond, Virginia. He was born on April 1st, 1917. HIs father was in the Light Infantry Blue,...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 1
Childers was born in Sherman, California. When he was young, his parents move the family to the Oklahoma.When he was...
Ehlers, Walter Segment 1
Ehlers served in Company L and Company C of the 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He enlisted in October...
Carrington, James Segment 1
James Carrington has previously been interviewed by Tom Brokaw and for Oliver North’s War Stories. Carrington was born...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 1
Clifford Rackley was born near Tifton, Georgia. He was young during the depression and saw the problems the big farmers...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 1
Ettlinger was born in Karlsruhe in the Southwest corner of Germany in 1926. He was born into an affluent family who had...
Lazarick, Len Segment 1
Lazarick was born in Camden, New Jersey in 1923. In those days Camden was a nice city with many large manufacturing and...
Ettlinger, Harry Segment 10
Ettlinger asked Jacque, a Frenchman, to help him go to Baden Baden to find his grandfather's collection and the man...
Brooks, Howard Segment 10
1 morning the prisoners were called out. They were usually called out every morning so the Japanese could do a head...
Myers, Leroy Segment 10
The general population was preparing, women too, to defend that island. Myers feels that if they did not drop the...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 10
Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 10
Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 11
The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...
Luckadoo, John Segment 11
After the war the US Army Air Forces suspected that John Luckadoo was suffering from PTSD. When he had returned from...
Church, Ray Segment 11
They did not know the exact cause of his death since he was in halfway decent shape but initially they were told his...
Ward, Harold Segment 11
It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...
Disanza, William Segment 11
When William Disanza had to urinate he would take a knife and dig a small hole to urinate in. Disanza always noted that...
Standifer, Leon Segment 11
They were not really Russian soldiers, but they were of Ukranian descent. Standifer called them Russians. If the...
Kalil, Louis Segment 12
Kalil mentions that it was quite an ordeal flying back to the United States because one of the engines caught on fire...
Murphy, Robert Segment 12
Robert Murphy had a lot of postwar contact with General James Gavin. In Murphy’s opinion the reason many high ranking...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 12
During one of his trips back to the United States Alexander Vraciu was offered the opportunity to fly the Zero [...
Brooks, Howard Segment 12
Brooks was just past 20 years old when he first entered the Navy. When he came back home it was like coming back to...
Karr, Robert Segment 12
Karr found out from the Laffey's newsletter that one of his buddies had fallen and broken his hip. Karr did not go to...
Ward, Harold Segment 12
[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...
Disanza, William Segment 12
William Disanza worked in the office for Falcon Buick. His job was to be the follow up guy. He would contact the...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 12
Baptiste would be watchful. There are countries and people who want to see this country go under so he believes that we...
Disanza, William Segment 14
William Disanza is not positive about everything but he thinks the Great Depression could never repeat itself. Disanza...
Myers, Leroy Segment 14
They got into the base and they stayed and ate. The next morning, they put them on a C-47. There was 2 or 3 other ex-...

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