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About three months after returning, Jeannine Burk's sister received a letter from a family named Mike and Frieda Savage...
Eva Gross saw anti-Semitism as a natural part of her life. It became more and more prevalent after the government...
Harvey Segal knew nothing of the concentration camps before he entered Germany. When he and his battalion [Annotator's...
While Norris Bucksell was in Naples, Italy, the churches that had not been bombed stayed open and he was able to attend...
Joseph Arbour recalls when the USS Portland (CA-33) provided shelling during the Battle of Tawara. He also remembers...
After surviving a B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] flight that arrived in Hawaii on...
Alonzo Emerson recaps a typical mission he flew as a B-25 Mitchell [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell...
After they were liberated, Thomas Crosby's mother wanted to return to the United States. They were able to sail on a...
Robert Marovelli said the PT boats [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boats] patrolled every night, and had to be...
Landing on 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], Joe Clapper's platoon went into Okinawa right below Kadena, with...
Wanda Damberg was born of a Dutch father who served as a diplomat in the Philippines starting in 1916. He met Damberg’s...
Felix J. Polito was born in Franklin, Louisiana in 1922. He lived there until he was 19 years old. In January 1942, he...
The B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] bomber crews typically did not fly every day;...
When Edward Chinnis reported aboard the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Dorchester (APB-46)], there was a third class...
Oran Harris remembers that he served with people from all over United States. The Soutern boys didn't like the way the...
The medics tagged Robert L. Williams with stating that he was suffering from combat exhaustion and he was brought to...
Anne Levy and her family were required to have good health in order to immigrate to the United States. Her mother and...
Kenneth Killilea left Maui and traveled by LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship Tank] to Saipan. The Japanese did not...
Waldeman Czaban's first experience bringing in casualties was disturbing. He thought about how young the wounded...
Walter Halloran was sent to Korea after the conflict started up there [Annotator’s Note: the Korean War started with...
Harry Carlson feels his most eventful missions were the nighttime missions over Japan. They were frightening at times...
Ben Skardon said there was scuttlebutt about an American bomb that had destroyed an entire Japanese city, but it was...
Eben Smith was relocated to Camp Lucky Strike in France [Annotator's Note: after being liberated from the Stalag Luft I...
[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...
George Scholes went back to the United States and led a group of sailors on a troop train back to Great Lakes for...
Odell Vaughn stepped on a shoebox mine and lost both his legs. Vaughn had collected mines in his barracks bag prior to...
They [Annotators Note: Tokuji Yoshihashi and the rest of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team] were in the town of...
Donald Wilson spent time in Tsingtao, China. Living conditions and the local population were very different for him. He...
Alton Barnes and the 158th Regimental Combat Team, 158th RCT, left the Philippines in September [Annotator's Note:...
The worst fighting Roy Johnston experienced was at Okinawa. That's where he had his introduction to the Kamikaze...
Jack Gutman said that because there were so many, the wounded were taken off Okinawa and brought back to various ships...
Alois Kopp returned from the war in a mood to celebrate. He ate and drank far too much and was advised by his father to...
Two days after the surrender [Annotator's Note: the formal Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945], C....
Olin Tisdale wasn't deterred by what he endured during World War 2. After VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan...
John DuBose had eight months of back pay when he departed the SS Frenchtown. He was concerned that he would be robbed...
Harold Berkman was still in Austria on 20 May [Annotator's Note: 1945] when his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company F,...

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