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Harold Joslin was an intercept operator [Annotator's Note: communication code specialist who interpreted enemy coded...
After Leonard Gaj made his jumps and went through strenuous training, he was told he would be given a furlough [...
Schuyler Lininger was sent to the Pacific in August 1945. He was part of the replacement troops coming in for the...
[Annotator's Note: Gilbert S. Shawn served in the US Army Air Forces as a pilot flying Consolidated B-24 Liberator...
Ralph C. Franklin became an adjutant in Division Headquarters [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Marine Division]....
Albert Yamamoto's [Annotator's Note: an American citizen who was in Japan during the war] most memorable experience of...
Wim de Jonge could tell when he left Holland for the East Indies that war was looming. He was not concerned with...
Felix J. Polito was born in Franklin, Louisiana in 1922. He lived there until he was 19 years old. In January 1942, he...
Rosette Goldstein was born in 1938 in Paris, France. Her family moved into a one bedroom apartment where they were the...
Francis Borrell was woken up early one morning and was told about the Japanese surrendering. Everyone was celebrating,...
Adolf Adam was born in May 1940 and grew up in a small town in the Sudetenland. He had eight sisters and two brothers....
Further down the road, they came across the site of a German death march. Ralph Sykes saw emaciated, elderly people...
[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...
John Raaen and a portion of the 5th Ranger Battalion were detached and under the command of Sullivan [Annotator’s Note...
Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 313th Infantry Regiment, 79th...
Roy Joseph Moss kept advancing toward Leon [Annotator's Note: Léon, France] where the Germans were strongly positioned...
Clarence Derrington entered France [Annotator's Note: with the 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division on 22...
When the Japanese assaulted Wake Island the second time, Walter Bowsher was ordered to destroy his antiaircraft battery...
Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. and the rest of the captured Wake Marines [Annotator's Note: US Marines who were captured when...
When Robert Rosendahl and his fellow survivors were told to destroy their weapons they threw them all out into the bay...
Murray Stein moved to Florida in 1981 after working for the US Postal Service for 37 and a half years. He was 18 when...
After liberating Paris France, George F. Mills [Annotator's Note: with the Company E, 2nd Battalion, 109th infantry...
John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division] had to occupy a forest...
In Busan, South Korea, the USS Hulbert [Annotator’s Note: USS Hulbert (DD-342)] was waiting for Charles Dragich [...
When Ernest L. Poulson and his unit [Annotator's Note: 567th Bombardment Squadron, 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air...
David Oreck was not part of the CCC [Annotator's Note: Civilian Conservation Corps] program as he was too young, but he...
During George Vincent Ross's first night there [Annotator's Note: on Guam, mariana Islands], Marines were killed...
James Livaudais flew from England to Holland on 17 September 1944. Flying at about 500 feet at 150 miles per hour,...
Sara "Sally" Manning's husband [Annotator's Note: William Henry Manning] was a POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war...
Joseph Vater did not know what would happen to him after he had to surrender. He felt helpless and stuck. He knew...
Harry Bell could not believe that they were surrendering. They had not fired a shot since leaving the front lines. The...
On 3 February 1945, nine American planes flew over the camp very low and slow. Curtis Brooks told his brother he...
At the time of his overseas deployment, Morton Brooks had little knowledge about the German treatment of Jews, except...
William Epperson entered the lower part of Germany after crossing the Maginot Line. It was called Wingen and was on the...
Arthur Staymates and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Staymayes was a squad leader in Company B, 1st Battalion, 26th...
Kaliste Saloom was attached to the SHAEF [Annotator's Note: Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces], Supreme...

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