Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Louis Hutchinson and the USS Wisconsin (BB-64) used Ulithi [Annotator's Note: Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands] as an...
Tola Herszenberg was born in Lodz [Annotator's Note: Łódź, Poland] in October 1921. She had an older brother. She was...
John T. Fallon ended up in Germany [Annotator's Note: with the Company G, 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat Regiment...
Leonard Jindra lost friends at the point of a German ambush [Annotator's Note: on 10 June 1944 while serving as an...
Charles Wesley Borders and his fellow pilots all started at about the same time. They had three flights of 11 pilots,...
The first time that Arne Samuelson experienced loss in his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 99th Infantry Battalion was a...
In July 1944, Richard "Dick" Schneider found himself with an extremely painful wisdom tooth. The dentist had a terrible...
Ray Garcia's worst experience happened in January 1945 when he could not fly because he had a cold. His best buddy,...
[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded above the city on...
Lloyd Dendy had been on a ship coming home when the war in Europe ended [Annotator's Note: 8 May 1945] and President...
After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...
Lawrence Angst was promoted from PFC [Annotator's Note: Private First Class] through to Sergeant. Each level bringing a...
Joyce Sherman had a pen pal. She had a cousin who was an Army nurse stationed in Italy and was corresponding with a...
Following the Battle of Bloody Ridge, Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] was...
Richard Swanson received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal [Annotator's Note: the highest non-combat decoration awarded...
John Nicholas lost touch with his half brother, George Hamaty, for three years during the war. While Nicholas was on...
Paul Wilson is amazed that some men survived the war. The training they went through did not help them. The real heroes...
One of the worst times Philip Schweitzer experienced was the month that he spent on the plateau on New Guinea. Another...
Some of the things Richard F. Penwell [Annotator's Note: and the rest of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute...
They [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division] went into Mindanao [...
Paul Lefever acknowledged that many men suffered because there was a stigma attached to going to a "flak house" for...
Peter Somogyi and his brother attended the mock trial held for Dr. Mengele. [Annotator's Note: Dr. Josef Mengele was a...
David Heath transferred to Guadalcanal, 26 miles from the island of Tulagi [Annotator's Note: both in the Solomon...
Roy Uthes arrived in Myitkyinā without any combat experience. His unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 209th Engineer...
David K. Hayward and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 22nd Bombardment Squadron, 341st Bombardment Group, 10th Air Force]...
Russell Clay and his wife were together while the USS Helena (CL-50) underwent repairs and upgrades on the West Coast....
Louis J. Armentaro thinks that maybe he could have gotten someone killed, but he had to have his sense of decency....
Dominic Geraci knew there would be an invasion, but did not know when or where. His was in a replacement unit that...
Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] left on D-Day [Annotator's Note...
Melvin Linkous and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Cannon Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division] came...
Ittsei Nakagawa never wanted to talk about it [Annotator's Note: surviving the atomic bomb detonation over Hiroshima,...
The nurses were not told much about their upcoming assignment on a hospital ship [Annotator's Note: the USAHS Thistle...
When the Japanese surrendered on Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines], Paul Franklin's unit [Annotator's Note:...
William M. Barnett [Annotator’s Note: who served with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division in Europe]...
Not long after the mission with the Filipino tribe [Annotator's Note: see clip titled "Mission with Filipino Tribe"],...
Robert Powers returned to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], which had been built up since he had last...

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