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George Hardy's unit had one loss in training at Walterboro [Annotator's Note: Walterboro Army Air Field, South Carolina...
George Hardy got news that he was going to Keesler [Annotator's Note: Keesler Field, now Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi...
When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...
There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...
Lawrence Winnier ate well on his ships [Annotator's Note: the USS Guadalupe (AO-32) and the USS Argonne (AS-10)]...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Betty Soskin how she feels about accepting the Silver Service Medallion at The...
Nathan Taffel and other Jews were forced by the Germans to build roads in Poland. At times, his life was threatened....
Joseph Hairston ended up at a camp 100 miles south of Tucson [Annotator's Note: Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona...
Marthe Cohn was a Jewish citizen of Metz, France. French Colonel La Rocque [Annotator's Note: François de La Rocque;...
Howard Chandler discovered from others who had tried to return to Poland that it was dangerous and possibly deadly to...
Walter Imahara was four years old when he went into the camp. They were first sent to an assembly center in Fresno...
John Elliott said he was very lucky to have had an excellent crew. On one night mission, they were going up to about 4,...
Robert Hammond's medical training was in suturing, and one of his major challenges on Guam occurred when there were no...
Norris Bucksell arrived in Italy with the 370th Regimental Combat Team, 92nd Infantry Division July 1944. They went...
Robert Fisch was an inmate of Mauthausen which was the largest concentration camp built in Austria. That was done after...
Alois Kopp enlisted in the Navy in September 1937 despite the fact he could not swim. He learned fast. He volunteered...
Wim de Jonge reached a prison in Singapore where he was guarded by Indian troops who had formerly served in the British...
Paula Knobler was lucky that she worked at a camp not in the German territory [Annotator's Note: the camp was in...
Johnnie A. Jones Senior was made a warrant officer [Annotator's Note: officers above non-commissioned officers,...
Judith Altmann recounts her stay at Gelsenkirchen, where the prisoners lived in tents. The earliest arrivals claimed...
Joseph Komito was born in the small town of Mielec, Poland. In 1939 [Annotator's Note: September 1939], the Germans...
Mala [Annotator's Note: née Gerstner] Geldner came from Chrzanów, Poland. The war started in 1939 [Annotator's Note:...
In 1939, members of Rena Finder's extended family immigrated to Cracow when they were sent away from Berlin. It was the...
Howard Chandler went to visit his relatives about 40 kilometers away after the 1939 school year ended. [Annotator's...
Joseph Komito had a sister who became involved in the resistance. She obtained papers showing her to be a German...
Madeleine Peters and her family evacuated in front of the advancing Germans [Annotator's Note: the Germans invaded...
In March 1939, Vera Goodkin [Annotator's Note: née Herman] witnessed German troops entering her town in Czechoslovakia...
Leona Kleiner [Annotator's Note: born Leona Rubenetzka; unsure of spelling of maiden name] Kleiner was born in Nowe...
Although there was a Gestapo presence in their town, Alexander White's father felt it was safe for his family to return...
Benjamin Lesser recalled the early morning in September 1939 when his three story apartment building started to shake....
Peter Somogyi saw his father taken away within a week of 19 March 1944 [Annotator's Note: the day Germany occupied...
Heavyweight champion Joe Louis [Annotator's Note: Joseph Louis Barrow, professional boxer] joined the Army. Samson...
Samson Alexander's grandfather was named Eddie Spencer. During the Great Depression, his grandfather ran off a...
Rothacker Smith entered Sommocolonia on 1 December [Annotator's Note: 1 December 1944] and his last day there was 28...
[Annotator's Note: Carolyn Bridgforth and her boyfriend decided to move up their wedding after the Japanese attacked...
Occasionally, Louis Massengale said, the guys would pull little tricks, and he described a "hot foot." When lit, a...

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