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[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...
Erwin Johnson spent his furloughs in New Orleans, Louisiana. After his furloughs were exhausted, he went to Camp Shelby...
Dell Lauderdale retired from the military and went to work for a private security company called Wackenhut Security. He...
Robert Madison said his "war was basically September of 1944 until December of 1944" when he was wounded. He did not...
Lester Hecht returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] on a Coast Guard boat. He was sent...
Warren Schmitt was one of 14 survivors from his battery [Annotators Note: survivors of the Malmedy Massacre]. All 14 of...
After being discharged from the Marine Corps, Bryon Oliver returned home. He returned to his old job, then moved to...
Donald Scott, a returning prisoner of war, says he brought home a lot of things he gathered up in Germany, such as...
Olen Grant was born in Benton, Arkansas on 5 April 1923. After his father returned from World War I, he moved to Benton...
Leonard Gaj describes his feelings towards Germans as a fruit tree. There is some good fruit and some bad fruit. He was...
Sullivan Tindal recalls an instance when his superior officer would not give him enough K rations [Annotator's Note:...
Joseph Traina trained in Algiers on the Navy base [Annotator's Note: Naval Station Algiers in New Orleans, Louisiana]....
Robert Lewter would swap cigarettes for Japanese services. The Japanese used needles and sewed thread as straight as an...
Lorcey J. Sonnier mostly bombed oil depots, factories, plane factories, ball bearing factories and bridges. This helped...
I. J. Karpay enjoyed being an Armed Guard [Annotator's Note: US Navy Armed Guard] on a merchant ship [Annotator's Note...
Robert M. Solomon remembers that it was very hot during monsoon season. [Annotator’s Note: He was stationed on...
Bryon Oliver boarded a ship in Norfolk, Virginia. Twenty one days after passing through the Panama Canal, Oliver was at...
George Miles met Lloyd Polette [Annotator's Note: US Army First Lieutenant Lloyd L. Polette; awarded the Distinguished...
In late summer of 1951 John Reeder returned to the United States. He was immediately sent to Quantico, Virginia for a...
George Alaniz was in Texas when the war ended. He was married and his wife was pregnant. He was discharged before the...
[Annotator's Note: Emmett Keylor served in the Army as a fuze setter on a 105mm gun crew in the 472nd Airborne Field...
Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...
Revisiting the time of his enlistment in the Marine Corps, Floyd Fogg said he signed up before he finished high school...
Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in the US Marine Corps] was discharged after the war. She helped found a...
While she was in boot camp, Verna White's daily routine started at five in the morning, followed by calisthenics and...
Dell Lauderdale was 18 years old and working on the family farm for his father when he decided to join the Marines [...
John Morrow recalls MEs, Maximum Effort missions [Annotator's Note: for a maximum effort mission, every bombardment...
Carl Beck was in Berchtesgaden, Germany when his unit [Annotator's Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 501st Parachute...
Jacklyn Lucas got a call from the President of the United States, Harry Truman [Annotator's Note: Harry S. Truman, 33rd...
Willie Roy Hebert kept in touch with his brothers while he was in the service [Annotator's Note: with Marine Aviation...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses the interview to adjust the camera.] Jack Rolfson went to work for American...
William Burkett thinks the war crimes trials [Annotator’s Note: Tokyo War Crimes Trials] were the most memorable. The...
Adolph Edward Asher was in Hattiesburg [Annotator's Note: Hattiesburg, Mississippi] at Camp Shelby when he got out of...
Manila was "decimated" except for the Mac Arthur Hotel, where the officer's would go, and Ray Gene Gresham said he only...
After fighting at the Saar River [Annotator's Note: Saar River, Germany], Benjamin Wolf Cohen and his division [...
Because of the frost bite problem with his feet, Vernon Leopold was given limited service for six months after his...

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