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[Annotator's Note: There is a loud hissing noise throughout this clip.] Seymour Nussenbaum got out of the service in...
When Glynn G. Raby, Jr. came home, he could not enjoy his 30-day leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a...
Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was sent...
Ray Eshelman was never interested in a military career. He had a couple of choices at discharge. He could join the...
After the war, Floyd Horne got into investigations. This was in 1946. He got out of the service as a First Lieutenant....
When Louis J. Armentaro got back home, he was successful as a machinist. He started two businesses. He also started a...
On VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945] Betty Sue Drake [Annotator's Note: a paymaster in...
After discharge, Windom Joseph Burton briefly used the G.I Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...
After the war, John T. Fallon was asked to stay in. He considered it but would have had to stay in Germany. He decided...
After VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945], James Anthony Gabour was going on his fourth year...
Fred Gordon was enjoying life after the war. He was in Czechoslovakia waiting to be sent home. In the meantime, he was...
When Floyd Stahl graduated in 1954, he had trouble finding work. He had taken insurance courses. He got an offer in...
Clarence Becker was on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] when the war ended and the treaty was signed [...
Vincent DeSalvo was discharged from the Army Air Forces in February 1946. On the trip home [Annotator's Note: from...
Donald G. "Mac" McWilliams used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of...
After the war ended in Europe, being transferred to the Pacific was kind of voluntary. Joseph Alter had made a...
After the conclusion of World War 2, Wilford E. Hastings decided to re-enlist for the Army for one more year and was...
After the war ended, William Beaman was sent back to San Francisco, California on the USS Flasher (SS-249), then...
When the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: The Japanese surrender was announced 15 August 1945, and officially...
By the end of the war, William Sturman was a Third Class Petty Officer. He used the G.I. Bill to attend New Mexico...
Guy Grenny returned home to the United States from the Philippines via the Aleutian Islands to San Francisco [Annotato'...
Tsuyin Soong does not feel he would not live in the United States if not for World War 2. He would not have moved...
Harold Daniel Snyder keeps in touch with Hegland [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling; unable to identify]. He, O'Hara...
When the war in Europe ended and the men of Raymond Mabarac's division [Annotator's Note: Mabarac was a member of...
Lionel Baxter did not have much to celebrate with when the war was over. Baxter was discharged in November 1945 in...
John Morrow volunteered to stay in the service after the war ended in Europe. The atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki...
Joseph Silvia thought the caste system in India was odd. The Americans lived like kings compared to the British there....
Frederick Ellis was relieved [Annotator's Note: of his command of USS LST-1026] and went to San Francisco [Annotator's...
Helias Doundoulakis [Annotator's Note: with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in Salonika, Greece,] eluded the...
William Lee Barnes was aboard the Bunker Hill [Annotator's Note: USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)] while his crew mates were...
Bryghte Davis Godbold was transported from Wusong [Annotator's Note: Wusong, also spelled Woosung, China] through other...
Edwin McGhee saw British and Russian POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] in the first camp he was held in. The...
John J. Connelly was captured by Germans when he bailed out of his plane and was transferred to Stalag Luft IV [...
When transporting prisoners, Paul Rothenheber was put in charge of taking care of them because he spoke German. The...
Clayton Hall was at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California...

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