Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Carlos Reed was sent to New Guinea in 1944. He was assigned to the 6th Infantry Division as a replacement. After the...
After training in Wisconsin, Joseph P. Fulco was shipped overseas. He departed on the RMS Aquitania. The trip was the...
Joseph R. Romano [Annotator's Note: gun captain aboard the USS LCM-1010] was part of a six-ship flotilla that bombarded...
Joseph Komito saw his parents for the last time on a train. The Nazis gave everyone in Komito's camp a postcard to send...
Louis Conter arrived onboard the USS Arizona (BB-39) in Pearl Harbor on 5 December 1941 following practice firing and...
Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] had his share of close calls on Bloody Ridge...
Wallace Hurley was discharged at San Antonio after returning to the United States. Men were given various strange...
After his hometown [Annotator's Note: Apeldoorn, Netherlands] was liberated [Annotator's Note: on 17 April 1945],...
The fight had lasted a couple of hours during which Thomas Murphy killed or wounded 137 German soldiers with his...
Wendell Galbraith did not suffer from any survivor's guilt. The only thing he experienced, not long before the...
Back in Hawaii, Richard Nummer participated in the preparations for the invasion of Japan. One of Nummer's fellow...
Ivan Van der Pool believes it is important to study Word War 2. He thinks it is a good training manual for what war is...
Howard T. Maki had a section sergeant who was a good looking guy who looked like a soldier. The man fell apart near the...
David Yoho remembers the huge fleet off Okinawa and the explosion of an ammunition ship. It had been attacked by a...
After he left the service, Armiger Jagoe went back to Harvard, but left after a week because he couldn’t sit in a...
When he got to San Pedro, California, Jack Gutman realized he had enough points to leave the Navy. He took a train home...
Elizabeth Goldstein struggled with her faith. She commented that she questions God and his reasoning for the horrible...
William Pierce returned to San Francisco in March 1946. He was discharged in April 1946. He was shipped back to New...
Lorenzo Dow Crews was transferred out of his unit [Annotator's Note: Company I, 3rd Battalion, 397th Infantry Regiment...
[Annotator’s Note: This video clip begins with James Nannini talking about a non-related topic.] Nannini returned to...
Edward Tipper continued his education after the service. He used the GI Bill to receive a Master’s Degree. He...
Maurice Zolkower had promised to marry his girlfriend, so he finalized the nuptials in six weeks [Annotator’s Note:...
Irving Becker worked about 20 years for the Postal Service [Annotator's Note: the United States Postal Service]. He had...
Allen Pedersen used the G.I. Bill briefly. He quickly obtained a job. It was a little difficult at first but things...
Richard Nummer returned to the United States in July 1946 after being in Japan for nine months. While on the trip home...
Benjamin Carson was on Guam when the war in the Pacific came to an end. All of the ship whistles and horns were blowing...
At the end of the war, Elmo Espree was transported through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean...
Harold Lightell served in Belgium after the war as part of the occupation force. The people were wonderful to the...
Henry Ratcliff almost arrived home after his outfit did [Annotator's Note: 860th Aviation Engineer Battalion, 5th Air...
Bruno S. Rinas began working on a rented farm and eventually got better. He believes that if you leave many things...
Adolfo V. Celaya returned to the United States and joined his father in a one-bedroom apartment in Tucson [Annotator’s...
Bernard Friedenberg passed through Camp Lucky Strike on his way home after the war. He remembers passing the Statue of...
Nicholas Ventura Sr. [Annotator’s Note: with the 351st Infantry Regiment, 88th Infantry Division] served occupation...
Following departure from New Georgia, Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] reached...
Abe Milkis took a train home from New York. [Annotator’s Note: he arrived in New York after he returned from Europe...
Henry Malec did not have sufficient points to return home immediately after the war ended. He was subject to being...

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