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There was not much of a question for Robert Rupp about whether to fight or not. He knew a couple people who got...
Robert Gurr was hesitant to use the term genius in relation to Walt Disney. Disney had the DNA and the instinct to come...
Herman Pbert was in the hospital as the war was ending. He was told he had done a good job cleaning his own shrapnel...
Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...
Henry Little joined the National Guard after World War 2 ended. He went into the combat engineers and went to Camp...
2 September 1945 was the official surrender on the USS Missouri. Muller had gone over to watch the Japanese go aboard...
Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310) serving in the Pacific] was...
After the war, Fiske Hanley was involved in testifying against the Kenpeitai. By then, Hanley was married and had a...
Jack Cohen says that today we hear a lot about tolerance. To him, there is a great difference between tolerance and...
There were roughly 36 planes in each mission from the base [Annotator's Note: Royal Air Force Thurleigh in Thurleigh,...
[Annotator's Note: Jack Keller's wife assists him throughout the interview as he had a stroke and has trouble...
Dell Lauderdale was on a ship for 14 days en route to Japan. He woke up and saw little people scurrying around and...
[Annotator’s Note: There is a buzzing in the background throughout this clip.] Justus Rosenberg [Annotator’s Note:...
Arnold Debrick would try to do just about anything. They were proceeding across France on a train and Debrick and a...
John T. "Jack" Race does not know how his war experiences influenced his postwar career, except to say that even though...
Betty Sue Drake went to paymaster school after basic training and was sent then to Washington [Annotator's Note:...
Lawrence Winnier's boot camp [Annotator's Note: in the US Navy] was being taught how to set a table and make beds. They...
Wilford E. Hastings drafted into the Army in 1943 and was sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee for induction. He was then...
Bryce Jordan always wanted to be a flight instructor. He knew his advanced instructor could fly much better than him....
Since Alfred Dearman would be in the cellblock with the prisoners [Annotator's Note: at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan],...
Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....
Joseph Earl "Joe" Samrow [Annotator's Note: enlisted in the US Navy in 1944, trained as a torpedo bomber gunner and...
Henrietta Harkness [Annotator's Note: an Army nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital] was trained in Virginia for a...
Bougainville [Annotator's Note: Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands] was taken on 1 November [Annotator's Note: 1...
Carl Landwehr was transferred from the 8th Air Force in England to the 9th Air Force in Frankfurt, Germany. He was put...
Adjusting to civilian life was not easy for Arthur Spaulding, but there were so many others in the same situation. They...
Roy H. Matsumoto was shown contempt by one of the translators in his unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 5307th...
Leila Morrison still sees the faces of some of her patients [Annotator's Note: while working as a nurse in the 118th...
After landing in Normandy, John Kerner and his unit [Annotator's Note: 110th Medical Battalion, 35th Infantry Division...
Peter Hebert served on Manicani Island [Annotator’s Note: Manicani Island, Leyte, the Philippines] after the war where...
When Benjamin Hagans was on the ship coming back, his teeth started to settle. He put on 17 pounds in three weeks. He...
The first treatment Carroll Harris received was heat lamps on his legs. However, his legs and feet began blistering, so...
James Paul Lynch's skipper [Annotator's Note: his captain, aboard the USS Snook (SS-279)], Chuck Triebel [Annotator's...
Richard "Dick" Loges was deployed to Italy [Annotator's Note: and assigned to Company H, 2nd Battalion, 180th Infantry...
Robert Payne was in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1944 in flight training. It was a small town. What they were doing was well...
Melvin Linkous was riding in a two and a half ton truck [Annotator's Note: two and a half ton, six by six truck, also...

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