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Kanaya had no idea if everyone made it back. They got off of the train in Chicago; there was a train from the Pacific...
Wicker was not fast enough so his buddy would help him swim along in the water [Annotator’s Note: during the attack on...
Standifer had been eating well and sleeping well in the hospital. He was put into a boxcar and shipped to the front. He...
Inouye helped liberate a village as well. One of the churches in the village had a high steeple. He asked the priest if...
Jackson describes what he experienced at Dachau.They knew it was there. They were called in to clear the bodies. But...
They moved on and Schmedemann ended the war in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia with the Fifth Corps. Pilsen was undamaged so...
After leaving the aid station [Annotator’s Note: near Chambois, France on August 20, 1944] Hawk was looked at by...
On 23 April [Annotators Note: 23 April 1945] Mancel Kirk and his fellow 168th Infantry Regiment GIs were taken by truck...
Paluch believes that it is very important that institutions like the World War II Museum preserve the stories of people...
When Steve Pisanos was in Vietnam he was to drop weapons and food to a convoy that was lost in the jungle. He got close...
Raymond Zager drove into the compound [Annotator's Note: Gunskirchen Lager Concentration Camp in Austria]. There were...
[Annotators Note: There is dead air at the beginning of this segment. The segment actually begins at 1:04:45:500.] For...
The Russians [Annotator's Note: who liberated Baynham and others at Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp] had a tank with...
They would constantly catch rides until they got to Paris. The third day of travel they ended up in Paris. They ate...
John Vessey had just returned from a mission when he was told that a cease fire was going into effect and the war in...
Myron J. Carraway served in Hawaii until June 1942. He then sailed to the Aleutian Islands based out of Kodiak [...
Harley Harned boarded a converted luxury liner for transport to Europe. [Annotator’s Note: Someone comes into the...
To be a member of the Naval Armed Guard, John Laster said, a sailor had to have 20-20 vision, be in good health, and...
Bernard Ellenberg's [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division as a typist for the Stars and Stripes,...
After completing basic training in New York [Annotator's Note: New York, New York] and more training in Memphis,...
Mervin Jensen went to advanced training at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San...
Irving Miller landed in the French Riviera near Saint-Maxime [Annotator's Note: Saint-Maxime, France]. The equipment...
Frank Fontana was a supply sergeant [Annotator's Note: in the 93rd Medical Gas Treatment Battalion]. He had access to...
Frank J. Waldeck and his unit [Annotator's Note Company C, 1st Battalion, 411th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry...
Harold Luers arrived in Scotland [Annotator's Note: with Regimental Headquarters, 347th Infantry Regiment, 87th...
[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee shows the camera several pictures while he talks about events of World War 2.] In...
[Annotator's Note: Joseph Stephaniak served in the Army as a paratrooper in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute...
Edward Allesandro said that most people are surprised to hear that the Coast Guard was fighting in World War 2. The USS...
Robert Gorman arrived at the Elbe River before the main body of the 557th [Annotator's Note: 557th Field Artillery...
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 was ongoing correspondence with people back home, and John Caraway was able to keep abreast of what was going on...
[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Seymour Nussenbaum heard about the Holocaust [...
It was not quite dark when Warren Schmitt linked up with the engineers who had stopped him [Annotators Note: Warren...
Guy Leefe, Jr. was in Lemgo, Germany when the war ended. Prior to that, Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: US Army General,...
Otto Kirkpatrick got orders on Easter Sunday 1943 to transfer to the 322nd Bomb Group [Annotator’s Note: 322nd...

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