Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Harvey Segal reached the French coast. He had to board a landing craft after taking off his 80 pound pack. The timing...
Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
Thomas Francis Schicker and the men [Annotator's Note: of Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...
Whayland Harvel Greene [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division] was sent to...
Harry McKnight arrived at Sugar Loaf Hill [Annotator's Note: a part of the Japanese defensive line known as the Shuri...
The war had been going on for about three years, and when Bryan Compton landed in southern France [Annotator's Note: on...
Shiyuza Hayashi and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 100th Infantry Battalion] experienced a lot of gunfire and...
Gwendolyn Mugliston became part of the BACEPOW [Annotator's Note: Bay Area Civilian Ex-Prisoners of War], while looking...
Irwin Stovroff and about 200 or so Jewish POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] had been separated by their German...
When Trinidad Ledesma lived in Riverside, California, he would get up in the middle of the night and make his family...
Henry Armstrong had a few nightmares about his war experience, seeing a concentration camp, and more. It took him 15...
Lewis Guidry thinks it is very important to keep the history of World War 2 alive. A major message is to always try to...
Glen Jostad describes his terrible experience during eight days transit from one Stalag to another. The cramped boxcar...
After being a prisoner of war in Germany, Donald E. Casey returned to the United States and suffered from post...
Adolph Wilson thinks The National WWII Museum is great. It shows appreciation for the veterans who served in the war....
James Billingsley was in the mountains fighting and going down a gulley [Annotator's Note: in the Philippines]. Machine...
Through the American Red Cross, Barbara Heming's mother was able to locate her parents. They were living in the very...
Curtis Brooks went to Staten Island, New York then Wellsboro, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: after being liberated...
The first time Alan Moskin realized he was in combat and war, something hit the top of his head. There were mortar and...
Around the second week of September [Annotator's Note: September 1944], Milton Moxon and the 94th Infantry Division...
Frank Hartzell and his battalion [Annotator's Note: Hartzell served on a machine gun crew in Company B, 21st Armored...
Clifford Albert Hahn reached Dutch Harbor [Annotator's Note: Dutch Harbor, Alaska] on 11 May [Annotator's Note: 11 May...
David Yoho had his first voyage on a tanker shakedown trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia. After the shakedown, the ship went...
During one of his first combat missions, one of the gunners on David Lehigh's plane panicked. He found out a few...
Dabney Montgomery had worked out his theory of peaceful protest against unjust segregationist laws well before the...
Gwendolyn Mugliston and her family were liberated from the Los Baños Internment Camp and taken to Bilibid Prison for...
Clarence Derrington was in Stalag VI-G [Annotator's Note: near Bergisch-Neustadt; Derrington had been captured on 14...
[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
After the war, Harry Bell kept up with several guys he served with but those contacts slowly faded away except for his...
Jimmie Dyer went overseas on a ship that was designed as a tanker. It was a sorry piece of machinery. It was a tough...
When they [Annotator's Note: Anthony Acevedo and the other former POWs from the Berga concentration camp] left Paris,...
During the Korean War, Harry Baughman was a battalion commander at Fort Polk, Louisiana and searched for a way to keep...
In March 1939, Vera Goodkin [Annotator's Note: née Herman] witnessed German troops entering her town in Czechoslovakia...
Edgar Harrell stayed in a hospital in Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] for some time [Annotator's Note:...
Perry Garten flew gliders in India and Burma. The storage and troop transport area within the glider was very limited....
Joseph Romano had mixed feelings about going home. He got disappointed when he went to Camp Kilmer [Annotator's Note:...

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