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Irwin Schneider's job was not overly exciting [Annotator's Note: he was in command of an ordnance depot at Milne Bay in...
Trinidad Ledesma volunteered to be a code clerk in headquarters where he thought he would be safer. He was shown a...
Benjamin Hagans was on a PT boat [Annotator’s Note: patrol torpedo boat] that brought MacArthur [Annotator's Note:...
Walter Groth [Annotator’s Note: stationed in the Philippines] provided fire support in the beginning. Then they were...
Edward F. Kent and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 602nd Field Artillery Battalion (Pack)] were selected for a special...
Coming from military intelligence background, Edward E. Boyles was ordered to prepare some of his troops [Annotator's...
Edward E. Boyles and his platoon's [Annotator's Note: at the time, Boyles was serving as a platoon leader in Company B...
John B. Butz and his entire crew were transferred from the 460th Bomb Group [Annotator's Note: 760th Bombardment...
Scheduled to take part in the bombing of German held oil fields in Romania, Robert Sweatt left Portreath, England on a...
Richard T. Russell, Jr. heard that the Japs [Annotator's Note: a period derogatory term for Japanese] had bombed Pearl...
Mason Brownell Fitch flew over Kobe [Annotator's Note: Kobe, Japan] on his first mission over Japan [Annotator's Note:...
Charles Kitowski and the other pilots [Annotator's Note: in the 64th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, 12th Air...
On Newton Dana's second mission, his plane was the last to leave the ground and as they reached the target area, he saw...
DeQuindre McGlaun [Annotator's Note: with the 333rd Bombardment Squadron, 94th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] went...
Joseph Massey was drafted just after leaving high school at age 18. He entered service on 15 November 1945 [Annotator's...
When the invasion [Annotator's Note: the invasion of Normandy, France] took place on 6 June 1944, Daniel Chester...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Liles served in the USAAF and flew Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft with the 16th...
For Charles Coolidge, success [Annotators Note: success in combat] continued in Italy. His unit [Annotators Note:...
Charles Coolidge recalls the weather at Monte Cassino as being cold and rainy. Coolidge feels that had they gone with...
The GIs would direct Joseph Hochadel to where the wounded were and then he would apply aid and do what he needed to do...
James Goodrich thinks that people had a greater hatred for the Japanese than the Germans in America. He credits hearing...
Harley Reynolds went through the town of Troina but did not fight there. Company F ran into most of the resistance...
Theodore Skare was on Morotai which the Japanese had invaded originally. The Americans took it back, occupying about a...
[Annotators Note: Franklin Denius was an artillery forward observer in Battery C, 230th Field Artillery Battalion, 30th...
[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee speaks slowly and pauses several times throughout segment.] Vernon Ollar participated in...
Burton "Burt" Johnson went to mortar school [Annotator's Note: M2 60mm mortar at Camp Elliot in San Diego, California...
Of his World War 2 experiences, Bernard Marcantel said that the one that stands out the most in his mind is of shells...
Earl Ervin Clark and 87th Mountain Infantry [Annotator's Note: 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th Mountain Division...
Merrill J. Clark's first operation [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 85th Mountain Infantry Regiment,...
John S. Johnson became disillusioned with some of his battery mates while working the Mount Fuji Project. The "Beast of...
Reneau Breard [Annotator’s Note: with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was stationed in...
Normandy was bocage country [Annotator's Note: a terrain of mixed woodland and pastures] and was divided by stone...
Leonard Jindra could not tell where he was but he stayed up that first night after landing [Annotator's Note: D-Day;...
Walter Ehlers moved his squad up the hill to the trenches [Annotator's Note: during the D-Day invasion of Normandy on 6...
Howard Ricks reached the island of Iwo Jima and discovered that the Japanese opposition was nearly invisible. Their...
Fred Arthur Balfour [Annotator's Note: with SHAEF – Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force] was building huts...

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