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[Annotator's Note: The clip starts with the interviewer mid-sentence explaining how the interview will proceed.]...
Martin Jacobson was born in Zurich, Montana in 1921. He attended college and got a deferment from service until he...
George W. McCarthy was a senior in high school and with friends when he found out about the Pearl Harbor attack [...
Joseph Silvia was born in April 1922 in Newport, Rhode Island. He was exposed to the military at age 12, by a soldier...
Clyde Hymel was born in Garyville, Louisiana in April 1926, and had fun growing up there. His father was a supervisor...
[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft IV near Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo,...
[Annotator's Note: In March 1945, Louis Liberato was moved from the Stalag XII-A prisoner of war camp in Limburg,...
George H. Roxandich [Annotator's Note: a German prisoner of war] heard news about how the war was going, and that...
Stationed in the Philippines before the war, James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft...
Luke Layton McLaurine, Jr. was taken by train to Frankfurt [Annotator's Note: Frankfurt, Germany] with his crew and...
As Earl Flanagan and his unit [Annotator's Note: 71st Infantry Division] marched through Germany, he noticed that there...
Solis “Sol” Kaslow felt the PT boat was wonderful and outstanding for the job assigned [Annotator’s Note: Kaslow served...
Melvin Dahlberg's first time abroad was in Italy which was very rundown. The local people were begging for food. He...
Walter Gaterman had post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD decades after the war. He met Vietnam veterans who had it...
Billy Grieves watches movies like Run Silent, Run Deep religiously. He feels that they are more Hollywood than reality...
Attending the Southern Signal Corps School at Camp Murphy in Jupiter, Florida, Robert Kinzler became a radar officer...
Donald Stratton went to Corona, California towards the end of 1942. He was there for a couple months before he was...
Harry Bender was discharged from the Marine Corps in June 1946. His friend, William "Bill" Laden [Annotator's Note: US...
Louis Conter started to talk to school students about Pearl Harbor in 1991. He and other Pearl Harbor attack survivors...
Jack Skaggs realized that he had been on a long journey in his life. That journey has brought him pride and enjoyment....
[Annotator’s Note: The interviewer asks Scott about his buddies at the time of his liberation in France]. Donald Scott...
[Annotator's Note: Meda Royce Hall is difficult to understand throughout this segment.] During his service in the...
Frank Pomroy tells the story of how he and Bill Hollman became friends. He was on Guadalcanal for five months and...
After the war, Roy Stewart stayed in touch with Jack Sims [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling]. Sims wanted to get a...
David Fisher loved and admired the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]. The...
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941]...
Mickey Montalbano has many good memories of his years in the Navy, and he said that he has never regretted even one day...
Ernest L. Poulson attends a reunion every other year. He believes its important for kids to have World War 2 as part of...
Paula Knobler feels it is important to continue World War 2 education of young people. Her oldest son, Sam, lives in...
William G. Roy is proud of his role in the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway. He thinks that the...
[Annotator's Note: There is a sound of a clock ticking in the background]. Chester Sharp's most memorable experience...
Burton Lewis served during the war because it was what every 18 year old did. He was lucky to have an engineering...
Wayne O. Hill remembers how important the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act...
Vincent Losada planed a reunion for his crew in the 1980s. Losada used the G.I. Bill to go to school for a year and a...
Morton Brooks had veteran buddies that shared experiences, although not many had anything similar to what he endured....
Donald Scholle enjoyed the Second World War except for the second skipper on his boat [Annotator's Note: USS Spadefish...

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