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Lawrence Angst was very anxious to get back to school after the war. He got his degree on the G.I. Bill. He became a...
The second and final time Floyd Fogg was wounded, the Marines were taking Hill 515 for the fifth time. They were...
Living in West Germany was very different for Elfriede Clausen [Annotator's Note: from living in East Germany under the...
Leon Grunte ended up in London, England and started training to be a nurse. He wanted to stay there. London was fun. He...
Elisabeth Bolster and her husband left Bremerhaven for America. There were four tier bunk beds on the ship. There were...
In 1961, Ivan Bodis-Wollner visited his girlfriend and applied to go to medical school in the United States. Cornell...
Before Eva Nathanson arrived in the United States, she tried to read everything about the country. She also needed to...
While Richard Keller was in Miami he got a phone call from a major asking if Keller wanted to go to the Command and...
John L. Cowan went on active duty in February or March 1945. He was at MIT [Annotator's Note: Massachusetts Institute...
When George A. Sarosi worked at a VA Hospital, he always felt it was an extension of the university. He has enjoyed...
Robert Maxwell stays busy representing veterans. He is committed to a local memorial for them. It lists names of men...
Arnold Spielberg was not depressed or unhappy being a communications guy [Annotator's Note: in the 490th Bombardment...
George A. Sarosi, like everyone else in Hungary, had a dossier that contained general information such as his...
Sol Lazinger remembers one of his officers was marked as missing in action in every official Army record. Sixty years...
The place [Annotator's Note: Nordhausen sub-camp of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany, 11 April...
Norman Hatch does not think of his experiences on Tarawa or Iwo Jima continuously. Rather, his experiences flood back...
In 1987, John M. Roberts learned that the 106th Infantry Division had an association so he joined it and started going...
Bruno S. Rinas was able to complete the work he was given because he was being fed. He never saw the Japanese shoot...
Frank Ragazzi didn't like the way the Japanese acted or the way they treated prisoners, and he didn't like the Nazi...
After serving in World War 2, Sullivan Tindal worked in construction for several years. He divorced his wife. He worked...
Dr. Kenneth Arrow explains his ideas on the contingent market concept. Contingent markets could have softened the...
Gerard Halpern was serving with the XVth Corps when the war ended. He was stationed in the town of Chantilly right...
Frederick Henry [Annotator's Note: a Military Police officer in the US Army, stationed in Tuskegee, Alabama] was born...
Freeman Dyson was not involved with the Manhattan Project. He was totally surprised at the dropping of the atomic bombs...
Jim Stumpfa had two four-hour watches a day [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Bangor (PF-16)]. They were on four hours...
As a result of a court-martial, John Foy's rank was reduced to corporal just before his discharge. He was a staff...
Margaret Brewer Henry attended college from 1945 through 1949. She felt like she was well prepared because her...
Dr. Roscoe Brown’s crew chief was Marcellus Smith whose nickname was Chow Hound. He was a very dedicated crew chief....
James Gooch graduated from school and was sent to Florida to replace a Warrant Officer [Annotator's Note: after...
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...
Cyril de la Vergne was in the Marine Corps about for two and a half years. It was office work and did not change after...
Zhanna Dawson's husband David was in the Mitropoulos Orchestra [Annotator's Note: Dimitri Mitropoulos was a famed Greek...
While in a troop car going across the country, Ralph F. Lafferty shared a car with his friends Ralph and Duke. Lafferty...
Olen Grant left the service when his operations had been completed. The army tried to get him stay in the service after...
Nathan Taffel and his brother were forced by the Germans to leave their labor camp and begin a death march. The weather...
Alan Moskin always says he is one of the lucky ones. He got emotional some time ago speaking and some of the guilt...

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