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Barney Hajiro fought in Northern Italy. Hajiro was the messenger for Company M [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd...
Elizabeth Lautzenheiser Irvine and the people in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines] were very...
Norman Bussel went to Florida to be assigned to a B-17 [Annotator’s Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress] crew. The pilot...
Joseph Haines was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Japan] from 9 May to December [Annotator's Note: 1945]. Truman [...
Vernon Leopold ended the war at Berchtesgaden in US Army Air Forces intelligence. He felt it was his personal victory...
In 1929, Bill Norberg's father lost his job due to the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great Depression was a...
Rosette Goldstein met her father at a farm after fleeing Paris. They adored each other. She was not afraid because he...
During the actions that led to George Sakato receiving the Medal of Honor, he wondered what he was doing here and why...
Leedell Neyland got his doctorate degree. He served as Vice President of Academics at Florida A...
As the chief legal officer of the Strategic Air Command, Dracos Burke was responsible for the legal affairs at 62 bases...
Rena Finder considers herself extremely lucky to have survived alongside her mother as a Schindler Jew. She is...
Luna Kaufman worked with a Sister [Annotator's Note: a Catholic nun] for 30 years. They met through the Anti-Defamation...
William Dabney took his basic training at Camp Tyson, Tennessee. This was near the Kentucky border and sometimes the...
Upon arrival his at Auschwitz, Leslie Aigner saw Doctor Mengele [Annotator's Note: Doctor Josef Mengele chose who lived...
After receiving his draft notice, Edgar Cole went down on the appointed day and time. He was standing in a big room...
During the early 1940s, the War Department took over Hudson Motors [Annotator's Note: Hudson Motor Car Company in...
Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...
William Anderson returned to San Diego [Annotator's Note: California] on Thanksgiving Day [Annotator's Note: 22...
Bernard Marcus and his family hardly discussed the world events in the 1930s. They always hated Hitler [Annotator’s...
Annaliese Nossbaum was moved into a former nun’s cloister in Bonn, Germany when she was 12 years old. She and her...
Anna Nossbaum and her family were taken to Theresienstadt [Annotator’s Note: Theresienstadt; transit camp and ghetto;...
Manfred Klepper left family behind when he left Germany [Annotator's Note: the Kleppers left Germany in April 1940 as a...
Norris Bucksell says that Rome, Italy is hard to beat. The war ending was great, but Rome was the best. Even the buses...
[Annotator's Note: Edgar De Pue Osgood shows a picture of the USS Iowa (BB-61) that he took through a porthole.] That...
Carroll George felt extremely safe [Annotator's Note: in his general quarters station in the engine room aboard the USS...
Leona Kleiner arrived at Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp complex...
Carrel Reavis went from Virginia to basic training on a segregated train. When he went overseas, his ammunition company...
In August 1944, a few months after the landings at Normandy, the US Army high command decided to move the 92nd Infantry...
William Winter assumed that after finishing OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] he would be sent to an...
The attack on Pearl Harbor happened while Calvin Summers was at work, and when he came home, his family was discussing...
Jack Davis went to his military training at Camp Pickett [Annotator's Note: now Fort Pickett, near Blackstone, Virginia...
[Annotator's Note: There is a very loud humming noise throughout this clip.] After he was drafted [Annotator's Note: in...
William Dabney notes that there was no mingling between white soldiers and black soldiers. When they got overseas they...
Moses Hogan's basic training was in Norfolk, Virginia, and he shipped out from San Diego, California. He was assigned...
Vernon Henry Moret and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry...
Eugene Tarrant has certain memories from the war that have stuck with him to this day. One night off of Guadalcanal,...

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