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Grandson interviews Grandmother about life in Philippines, emigrating to US, Japanese occupation of Phillipines during WWII

Skip told Wilson about his memories of Smithville and about how it was when he grew up compared to today.

My grandma tells the story of my grandpa during WWII

Susan interviews her mother, Louise (who has stage 4 Lung Cancer) about her childhood, her career, and memories of her husband.

Interview with my grandpa about WWII Homefront

Interview with my grandpa about World War II homefront.

Sono Begert (née Nishimura) travelled from Japan to Europe in 1939, just as World War II began.

Interview with my maternal grandmother, Anna Pieger.

Michele recorded a conversation with her mother in 2007. It includes many questions about her sister, Carol Ann Bulkley Johnson and her father Rollo Newman Bulkley

This was an interview I did with my Grandmother Verna (aka Moogie)

World War Two veteran and longtime Watsonville native, Al Hopson tells of his time in the United States Army Air Corps (now called the US Air Force). He enlisted in February of 1943 on his eighteenth birthday. His intention was...

Hazel M. Pace talks with her son James T. Pace about being a nurse in Menlo Park, CA for the Army and tells about meeting her husband Bob at Dibble General Hospital, where she was working. Hazel and James tell...

Mother and aunt's impressions of WWII.

Scott Hamilton (50) interviews his father, Albert Hamilton (76) about his family, his faith, and serving in the army.

This is a first-person account of what a young Iowa farm boy experienced after the escort carrier he was stationed on was sunk and the harrowing 48 hours spent floating in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued.

Ruth Enders talks with her granddaughter, Erin Chrusciel, about how she raised nine children and what life as a military wife is like.

Nancy Bentley (63) interviews her husband, John Atkinson (67) about his life, focusing on his health issues with eczema and asthma, his work in the Peace Corps, and his favorite family memories.

Betty Perritt on Going to Portland with Her Friend to work in a Defense Plant When They Were 18

In this interview, Taylor Allan (16) interviews Marly Meulemans (84) about historical events that took place in her childhood and how they influenced her later life. These historical events include the Polio epidemic and WWII.

Ross Goff (1922-2000) recalled his childhood in Tunnelton and Morgantown, WV during the Great Depression. He served in the U.S. Army Mar 1944 - Mar 1946 in Co K, 11th Regt, 3rd Platoon, 3rd Squad. Fought in four campaigns, including...

Richardina DeMaere tells her granddaughter Monique Belli about her childhood and young adulthood in Belgium and what it was like to come to the United States.

Further details upon my father's family history and the people who make it up

Christina Laufer (27) talks with her brother Ryan Nebeker (30) about their grandparents.

Interview with Clarence Crawford. Various historical events

Kara Stoltze, 32, hears one of the happiest memories of her grandmother, Charleen Frescher Gunning, 88.