Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Claud Neal Fristoe, Jr. left New Guinea and was assigned to Leyte Gulf in the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Fristoe...
[Annotator’s Note: There is someone off camera helping the interviewee with answering questions throughout the segment...
Joseph J. Drake fought all the way through to Pilsen, Czechoslovakia [Annotator's Note: Plzeň (Pilsen), Czech Republic...
When it came time to leave Burma [Annotator's Note: now Myanmar], Robert Lippman was told he would be part of the lead...
In April 1945, Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. was wounded and was recovering in the hospital. He was given penicillin by...
[Annotator’s Note: Someone in the background is audible throughout this segment. The interviewee also knocks on the...
Herbert W. Ridyard joined the 94th Division [Annotator's Note: Ridyard served on a heavy machine gun crew in Company H...
After the Japanese surrendered, Richard Bennett was last to leave PT-470. He skippered the boat through bad weather...
Harvey Mittleman and his unit [Annotator's Note: with the 58th Naval Construction Battalion, also known as Seabees] was...
Charles Struble learned about the atomic bombs being dropped after the aircraft returned [Annotator's Note: nuclear...
After the war ended in May 1945, William F. Bielec and his unit [Annotator's Note: 184th Ordnance Medium Maintenance...
The last thing Kenneth J. Hanson [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 410th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division]...
Shirley Sandy Schulman and her husband, Hyman, corresponded daily through letters while he was deployed overseas in...
Arthur Levine [Annotator's Note: with the 30th Infantry Division], turned 20 in July 1944 after landing in Normandy [...
John Stanley Lee Swarts returned to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Europe] and was sent to Treasure Island,...
The war in Europe ended for Clifford Smith, but he soon heard his division [Annotator's Note: at this time, Smith was...
Wayne McKinnon Gilmore was working in an office helping with transfer lists to send Marines back to the United States...
When Warren William "Bill" Allen, Junior's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery Battalion, 87th...
Byron Herbert Meader's division [Annotator's Note: Meader was a member of Headquarters Company, 271st Infantry Regiment...
Edgar R. "Ross" Forman [Annotator's Note: with Company A, 319th Engineer Combat Battalion, 94th Infantry Division in...
George W. McCarthy had lost 57 pounds when he was liberated from a prisoner of war camp. It did not take him very long...
James L. Wheeler was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Northern Mariana Islands] to train for the Battle of Japan....
Bernie Smith’s husband was United States Army Captain William “Bill” Smith, an officer in an artillery battalion in the...
In training at Camp Edwards, Massachusetts [Annotator's Note: in Cape Cod, Massachusetts with the 141st Infantry...
When the war in Europe ended, Alfred "Al" Danegger believes he was in Koblenz [Annotator’s Note: Koblenz, Germany]....
Florence MacCallum [Annotator’s Note: a citizen of England working for the U.S. Army Joint Chiefs of Staff in London,...
Joseph Hochadel was wounded in his left leg and had one surgery to fix it. He was in the hospital for approximately a...
When Bernard Friedenberg [Annotator's Note: a medic with the Medical Detachment, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment...
Anne Levy and her sister were on a journey for two days before her sibling became ill and began running a fever. [...
Martin Banyas and his gunners did a good job as the last line of defense for the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Santa Fe (...
Ed Rendelman found that just surviving the war was the best experience he had in the combat. Seeing those wounded...
Mark Brannon was given a 30 day terminal leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time],...
William S. Meyers, Jr. [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 929th Field Artillery Battalion, 104th Infantry Division]...
Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...
Guy Grenny feels good about his life helping veterans. Veterans have told him he helped them. It was good being in the...
Paul Sparacino's father was in the Army [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] but did not really talk about it....

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