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Joyce Sherman left the service and got married. She does not think she was really any different due to the war. Maybe...
Paul Rothenheber was excited to be back home. He smoked alot of cigarettes at the time. When he would go home, he gave...
Lester Shapiro could have stayed in the service and been a Warrant Officer. He was discharged at Fort Dix [Annotator's...
John Elliott made one more mission after the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...
Robert Bueker returned to the United States in early July [Annotator's Note: July 1945]. He went to Reims, France first...
Raymond Loidolt took a Navy destroyer back to the United States from China. They went through mines [Annotator's Note:...
Anthony Varuso served in the Navy for three years and eight months. He had rotated back to the United States by the...
Walter Ram left Europe by ship on 3 June [Annotator's Note: 3 June 1945], and reached the United States on 11 June. Red...
[Annotator's Note: Clifford Suthern Hayes served on occupation duty in Austria after the war ended.] Clifford Suthern...
After the Germans surrendered, the units moved back gradually. Anton Jaber thinks he went through every one of the...
Felix Polito returned to the United States after the Kiska campaign. He was sent to Burlington, Vermont and was given a...
William Curtis packed up his stuff and went to the naval base. He reported to Coast Guard section officer there who...
Terrell Lavern Pigott sailed home on the the West Point [Annotator's Note: USS West Point (AP-23)], which was a sister...
[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...
After being wounded in Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] Kenneth Dwight Wells was taken to an airfield and...
Robert J. "Bob" Brasel and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Platoon, Battery C, 389th Antiaircraft Artillery (...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] In March 1949, Albert "Al" Machaud received...
Abraham Rosenzweig suffered from a punctured eardrum when an explosion occurred near his boat near the island [...
About two weeks after war in Europe ended, Charles R. Brown [Annotator's Note: with Headquarters Company, 66th Armored...
When Richard Thelen returned home, he served at the Grosse Ile Naval Air Station outside of Detroit [Annotator's Note:...
David Hanning was assigned as an assistant to a lieutenant and then to the headquarters of an adjutant general where he...
Theodore Marolda returned to the United States via San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California]. It was...
Walter Bala completed 35 missions before he returned home. He had one mission where he thought for sure he was going to...
Edward Allesandro had a lot of artifacts from Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Mariana Islands] that he picked up at...
John Hever noted that when they got to Seattle, Washington, there was no parade. The returning soldiers and sailors...
As the war was ending, Nolan Ruiz's German captors had taken the prisoners and marched them west so that they could...
Charles Radford was put in a tent with a bunch of wounded guys after the surgery [Annotator's Note: after being wounded...
After the war ended, Thomas J. Smith, Junior and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine...
The day the war ended, Robert Engel was in a town in Germany. The manure and urine from cows were kept in the town for...
Frank Biondo was not doing much after the war was over. He took a furlough [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for...
James William Grimes kept in touch with his family by writing letters occasionally. He had a girlfriend in high school...
Lloyd Guillory returned to the United States on a Matson cruise ship. There were 800 officers and nurses as passengers...
Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BARman, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th...
Robert A. Stachel [Annotator's Note: a tail gunner in the 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group] flew 19...
Garland Virgil Longhoffer returned home on 1 September 1946, after one year in Japan. He learned some of the Japanese...
With his orders in hand, Robert Leese left New Guinea by way of Nadzab and Finschhafen, and sailed on a transport ship...

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