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Different people handle combat in different ways. Richard Willett had a cousin who was a deeply religious family man...
After liberation [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila Internment Camp,...
Lorene Auld and her sister were not aware of anything they could join for the war effort where they were in Oklahoma....
Before and during to World War 2, Adolf Adam's father worked as a mechanic in a neighboring town and was able to...
Returning to Maui [Annotator's Note: returning to Maui, Hawaii from Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands] was the first...
Joseph Richard was a welder assigned to the USS Rigel (AR-11) when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. He...
James Pringle signed up to fight in the war. The majority of them [Annotator's Note: Black Americans] had. It was not...
[Annotator's Note: The interview starts at tape break and the conversation is mid-sentence about Frank Purvis' new baby...
Clifton Trahan was hospitalized in Africa after being burned in a submarine attack while serving aboard the merchant...
Keith Kiefer saw that his orders said "Enewetak Atoll Radiological Cleanup". He was concerned but told he would get no...
On 7 December 1941 [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], Robert Taylor...
The hedgerows were maybe 1,000 years old and enclosed every acre or two. Joseph Alter says some of them were eight feet...
In Japan, the men would have to kneel on round sticks for hours. Bruno S. Rinas did not have that happen to him. He met...
[Annotator's Note: Henry Armstrong served in the Army on a forward observer team in Battery B, 607th Field Artillery...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore about a Medal of Honor recipient he knew.] Henry Erwin [...
Coleen Landry's brother Reed was married right after getting home from the war in the Pacific. He and his fiance had...
Carolyn Bridgforth met her husband at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby near Hattiesburg, Mississippi] when he...
Helen Kushnir is just beginning to realize that it mattered [Annotator's Note: being a woman working in a factory for...
On 5 December [Annotator's Note: 5 December 1943], Alfred Dietrick and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st...
Jack Davis and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 10th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division]...
John LeBure began working with the Higgins company while the 37 foot boats with a bow [Annotator’s Note: the Higgins...
Simon Braitman went to Rochester [Annotator's Note: Rochester, New York] and entered high school right away. He...
The Rangers de-trucked in Kleinhaus at about two in the morning of 7 December 1944 then marched a couple of miles to...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks if Clarence Becker had received word that flights were not supposed to go out...
[Annotator's Note: After liberation from a concentration camp, Severin Fayerman went to a United Nations displaced...
George R. Bolin's father was born in Galveston [Annotator's Note: Galveston, Texas]. His name was Lodwick Timothy Bolin...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Micha Tomkiewicz how his mother coped with her experiences in the concentration...
Lester Hecht's wife [Annotator's Note: Lillian] did not mind moving back in with her parents, when Hecht went to war....
Robert Boeke [Annotator's Note: with the 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division] was promoted to Corporal...
[Annotator's Note: On 13 July 1944, Dwain Luce and the 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division...
[Annotator's Note: An interviewer asks Thomas J. Blakey what he knew prior to jumping into Holland for Operation Market...
Robert Stephen Bebko used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was...
Ray League never heard about the Holocaust prior to entering the Army. He did not want to know, but the Germans knew....
Holocaust survivor, Ernest Gross does not give a thought to Holocaust deniers because he feels there is no way they can...
Howard Chandler continues to feel the personal effects of the Holocaust. He learned to be kind and helpful to less...
Louis Liberato came home to Norfolk, Virginia on the USNS General Simon B. Buckner. He stayed a couple of days there...

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