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President Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States] passing away was...
Clarence Wolf Guts [Annotator's Note: a code-talker – a person employed by the military to use a little-known language...
[Annotator's Note: Nelson Constant was working in oil exploration for the Humble Oil Company in Louisiana and had his...
Florence MacCallum [Annotator’s Note: a citizen of England working for the U.S. Army Joint Chiefs of Staff in London,...
Bernie Smith was born in March 1919 in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from high school and took some college courses at...
Myers Bernard Rosenbloom left Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan] and went 7,000 miles across the ocean back...
William M. Barnett [Annotator’s Note: with the 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] first saw a dead G.I. [...
Angelo Ciotta was between Camp LeJeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina...
Norma Halberg does not recall how many hours of primary training she had. She went from the Stearman [Annotator's Note...
[Annotator's Note: The Women Airforce Service Pilots or WASPs were disbanded on 20 December 1944, which came as a...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...
James Lee was born in 1930 on Oahu [Annotator's Note: Oahu, Hawaii] in a little community called Kalauao. It is no...
When Herman Pbert was going back to Germany [Annotator's Note: in 1950], he said he would be so bad against them [...
[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.] They were on...
On the day she was discharged [Annotator's Note: from the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES);...
Nancy Lynch Castellano was not old enough to join the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency...
Ernest Jackson feels that his group [Annotator's Note: the African-American Marines at Montford Point Camp in...
Some of the wounded would talk to Amelia Taylor about their experiences, but some did not want to. They told her that...
Maud Dahme stayed with Christian families and attended church with them during the war [Annotator's Note: she had gone...
The first weapon William J. Twigger had when he entered the Marine Corps was the Springfield rifle [Annotator's Note: ....
Frederick Haack was flying off the coast of Taiwan [Annotator's Note: with the 68th Troop Carrier Squadron, 433rd Troop...
[Annotator's Note: A woman off camera interjects throughout this segment.] Mary Julia Tarnow was born in Mineral...
John Bradley and his mother moved to the United States in 1949 [Annotator's Note: they were liberated 3 February 1945,...
Emiline Ann Bourgeois was stationed at West Point [Annotator's Note: as an Army nurse at the hospital of the United...
Battle Malone Barksdale was in H Company [Annotator's Note: Company H - unable to further identify - at the United...
Herbert Stern had received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and was...
Raymond Cauble won an airplane ride in 1935. Cauble volunteered for the service due to patriotism. He says he would...
Ingrid Radke-Azvedo was on extended leave from school during the Bombing of Berlin, Germany [Annotator's Note: Berlin...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer remarks that Erna Deiglmayr was risking her life to help Jewish people in Belgium...
Guy Stern served out of the conviction that the cancer of Nazism must be eliminated. His life was change by accident....
Joseph Romano's most memorable war experience was being hit over the head with a pistol by a fellow soldier. He did not...
Matthew A. Reluga was not capable of going to the Naval Academy [Annotator's Note: United States Naval Academy,...
Luba Keller was 11 years old when some Nazis abducted her in her hometown of Szydłowiec, Poland. They took her and two...
Robert Francis Jones trained dogs with the United States Coast Guard. Sometimes young recruits came in and it was...
Richard Scholl arrived in New Guinea to constant rain. They were experimenting with canvas boots. They would wear them...
Stewart Hihn's unit [Annotator's Note: 222nd Infantry Regiment, 42nd Infantry Division] was transferred from 7th [...

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