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[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] When Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein was very...
Moise S. Steeg, Jr. received his commission and went to Keesler [Annotator's Note: Keesler Field; now Keesler Air Force...
Wesley Fronk never fired a shot in anger. There was one instance where he and another soldier were returning from...
James Sandoz had a good trip overseas even though it took longer than normal. They made a lot of detours due to...
After returning to the United States for the second time, Gwendolyn Mugliston's family did not play music in their home...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout the clip, Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. refers to papers he is holding as he discusses...
William Cart thinks his most difficult mission was to Maloelap [Annotator’s Note: Maloelap or Maleolap Atoll, Marshall...
Robert G. Aldous had difficulty transitioning to being a civilian after World War 2. He got home and thought everything...
In civilian life, William J. Twigger had a dear friend who became an officer in the Navy. By stroke of luck, he wrote...
Leather was needed for the servicemen's shoes. Audrey Maduell had to have ballet shoes and others. She had to use extra...
Formosa [Annotator's Note: Republic of Formosa; present day Taiwan] had not been hit and was going to be hit for the...
F.M. Richard Simons was a disc jockey for a while and then had enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was...
Philip Dunford was discharged from the US Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp...
Leslie B. Mason, Junior was told he could stay in the Army, but he had no desire. He got home in September [Annotator's...
Robert Barnett came back to the United States through the Panama Canal on Christmas Day, 1945 to join the Atlantic...
Robert Spint was discharged at Camp McCoy, Wisconsin [Annotator's Note: now Fort McCoy in Monroe County, Wisconsin]. He...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Bernard B. "Bernie" Bluestein remembers when...
While waiting to go home William "Bill" Parker was named First Sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company E, 116th Infantry...
Angelo Ciotta was shot in the leg and evacuated to an Army hospital in Guam. He spent ten days there and then went to...
When David Harvey heard that the war had ended, they had 1,500 planes up off the carriers. The British and Russians had...
Simon Braitman got out of the Army in 1953. He went to see the president of Bausch...
Before Vernon Tweedt was discharged in Germany, his then-girlfriend had written him. A pastor had offered her a job...
Isaac Edward could not find much work after being discharged at the end of the war so he volunteered for the US Air...
Herbert Stern and his unit [Annotator's Note: 325th Field Artillery Battalion, 84th Infantry Division] left the Bulge [...
On 4 May 1945, near the end of the war, Alan Moskin and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 66th Infantry Regiment, 71st...
Joseph Haines was drafted in April 1944. He was sent to Camp Lee, Virginia. He got off the train and there were two...
[Annotator's Note: Carl Marca served in the Army as a mail censor in the Pacific Theater of Operations.] One censor...
Samson Alexander got the idea to join the US Air Force but did not have a college education. The principal of his...
Thomas Francis Schicker and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...
Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John Paul what it was like to see Berlin, Germany as the target for the first...
Helene Minehira [Annotator's Note: a person of Japanese descent living in Hawaii] and her family were forces off their...
Gerald Abbenhaus had wanted to become a liaison officer for his regiment, but the war ended before it could happen. A...
James Jordan and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 333rd Engineer Special Service Regiment] were...
Richard Keller [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] got the DSC [...
Charles Wesley Borders was strafing a target in New Guinea and got hit. He nursed the airplane back to a temporary base...

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