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After completing basic training in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] and more training in Memphis,...
John Scott Campbell did several different jobs over time. He was a gunner on the 20mm gun [Annotator's Note: Oerlikon...
Marilyn Strelow Groel enjoyed her boot camp experience, especially the instruction on how to salute, march, and obey...
Donald Beeghly did not see any massive movements of German prisoners. Beeghly has a document he received from the...
[Annotator's Note: Thomas Eakes served in the US Army Air Forces with the 713th Bombardment Squadron, 448th Bombardment...
Jackson Davis spent his war duty time at Pearl Harbor working in Naval Intelligence. He was there from start to end. He...
Richmond Hamilton describes squadron life as his first exposure to an integrated unit where he had real...
Louis J. Brown, Jr. and a friend bought a 1929 Model A convertible [Annotator's Note: 1929 Ford Model A convertible]...
Fulton Taylor returned to California and reported for further assignment. He received a 30 day leave en route to his...
The first thing that happened to Harry McKnight when he reached boot camp was a haircut. He was then given a rifle and...
Roy H. Matsumoto returned to the United States and served five years in each of two separate locations. He had a good...
Dell Lauderdale had been to Japan twice and Korea once before his next assignment which was finally back to the United...
Jim Stumpfa was shipped to Bellingham [Annotator's Note: Bellingham, Washington aboard the USS Bangor (PF-16)] when the...
Dr. Roscoe Brown was attacking a train one time. He was leading the squadron [Annotator's Note: 100th Fighter Squadron...
Larry Engmann served as a seaman and deck hand in the Navy and was assigned to the USS J. Fred Talbott (DD-156). His...
Raymond Birdsall [Annotator's Note: a Torpedoman 3rd Class on the USS Batfish (SS-310)] was 17 years old when he joined...
Donald Scholle was proud to have served on the USS Spadefish (SS-411). He did not like the second skipper who drove the...
Rosemary Fagot would not go into the u-boat [Annotator's Note: German submarine] because she is claustrophobic. [...
Adolph William Amundson's mission on Iwo Jima, Japan was to pick up the wounded and fly them back to a hospital on Guam...
Robert Oplinger never had issues other than sunburn from being in the water during his time as a frogman. Some of the...
Lee R. Broussard was working in Admiral Halsey's [Annotator's Note: US Navy Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey]...
Jacklyn Lucas was just asking God to save him [Annotator's Note: after being wounded by the hand grenade he jumped on...
[Annotator's Note: Wallace Yip, Sr. fought his way across France with the 79th Infantry Division.] They finally made it...
Leonard Jindra [Annotator's Note: an infantryman in the Company F, 2nd Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment, 29th...
Henry Schaller got discharged. He flew home in a new plane that nothing worked in. He flew from Italy to Africa and...
[Annotator's Note: Running water can be heard throughout segment.] Alfred A. Lingo returned from the Aleutian Islands...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Baile served in the USAAF as a flight engineer on B-29 bombers in the 9th Bombardment Group...
Charles “Chuck” Wisher thought the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was the...
Louis J. Brown, Jr. reflects on the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber]. He first laid...
The interviewer asks Wesley Carroll to discuss his recollections of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...
Richard Edward Gile fought in the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...
Thomas Murphy spent eight or ten weeks in the 23rd General Hospital [Annotators Note: after being wounded in the side...
William Dabney notes that the equipment kept coming in [Annotators Note: across Omaha Beach in the days following the 6...
There were four parallel 9,000 foot runways [Annotator's Note: on Tinian]. Paul Dietzel's group was at the far end. One...
Astley Blackwell feels that it is very important for students to learn about World War 2. There is a museum at the base...
[Annotator's Note: Leroy Redmond served in the Army as a tank crewman in Combat Command A, 14th Armored Division and...

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