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Luna Kaufman was shipped to Germany to work for the same factory who owned them before [Annotator's Note: Kaufman was...
During the entire year of 1943, Alexander White and his father worked at the air base and lived in the barracks. In...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Jack Werner what in his childhood in Austria made him what he is today and...
Norman Hatch does not think of his experiences on Tarawa or Iwo Jima continuously. Rather, his experiences flood back...
Once William Garbo returned to G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, he resumed command of his machine gun...
John Morrow does not really remember his first mission as a radio operator on a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...
Arthur Staymates studied with the MPs [Annotator's Note: military police] prior to leading the guards during the...
Jack Lengsfield says that although he thought about the moral implications of bombing cities, he had no qualms and...
Thomas Crosby gives his wife all the credit for his breakthrough with is post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. He...
Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...
Norman Sterrie thought he would be going home [Annotator's Note: he was a Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo plane pilot in...
The only thing Phineas Stevens remembers about Corregidor [Annotator's Note: Corregidor Island, Luzon, Philippines] is...
Kent Butzer Kellegrew was born in September 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. After four years in Duluth, his family moved to...
[Annotator's Note: Larry Cheever can be difficult to understand at times] Larry Cheever was born in September 1920 in...
Charles Brightman Skinner was born in May 1926 in Jacksonville, Florida. He had an older brother who served in World...
Nita Fay Overby was born near Manitou, Oklahoma in 1925. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...
In 1942, Joseph Stefaniak and some friends got a three-day pass [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short...
Margaret Brewer Henry attended college from 1945 through 1949. She felt like she was well prepared because her...
Ryan O'Brien crashed on 10 December 1944. O'Brien had been sent to lead navigator school. He flew a lot in the lead...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Klenoski was a navigator on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bomber in the 492nd...
Albert Pultz Lochra, Jr. and his crew [Annotator's Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air...
William Fili went for assignment to Salt Lake City [Annotator's Note: Salt Lake City, Utah]. He had just finished B-26...
[Annotator's Note: Audio is not good throughout this clip.] Marvin Raymond Graham shipped off to Boise, Idaho where he...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer and Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. converse about a non-related World War 2 experience.]...
George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...
Arnold Debrick was at a reunion with his wife some years after the war. They arrived early and his old colonel was...
Frank Patti's unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 333rd Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division]...
Edward Zarger's brother was killed on 16 September 1944 in Mountain Home, Idaho when a B-24 bomber [Annotator's Note:...
Donald G. Watson's company [Annotator's Note: 271st Engineer Combat Battalion, 71st Infantry Division] moved quickly...
In March 1945, Robert Gorman learned that he was a father. He received a telegram giving him the news. Everyone in his...
William Curtis did not keep up with the other men on his boat after the war except the boatswain’s mate. He worked at a...
Elizabeth Bedson Wehner went to Purdue [Annotator's Note: Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana]. She had to...
Joseph Medicine Crow had a grandfather named White Man Runs Him. That grandfather was actually the brother of Medicine...
Herbert W. Ridyard performed guard duty at a bakery at Mettmann, Germany after the war. This duty consisted of two...
Around five on the morning of 6 June 1944, Eveline Peardon and her family were awoken by the sound of heavy artillery...
By 1943, Mary Frances Dorothy Wood attended college, but was evacuated to Devon [Annotator's Note: Devon, England]....

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