Jim O'Dair
Bombardier-navigator Jim O'Dair was shot down during a bombing raid on Japan. He was interred by Russians for six months before being smuggled out of the country.

Jane Heinemann
Music teacher Jane Heinemann joined the Red Cross in 1943 and served both stateside and in the Pacific Theater.

Herbert Hanneman
Herbert Hanneman survived the Batann Deaath March and served out the war as prison labor in a Japanese steel mill.

Frieda Schurch
Farm girl Frieda Schurch joined the WAAC in January, 1943, and remained during the transition to the WAC. Schurch served stateside in Iowa, Texas and Florida.

Donald Fellows
Donald Fellows joined the Merchant Marines and traveled the world during the war.

Lucille (LeBeau) Rabideaux
Lakota-French Lucille Rabideaux joined the Army after graduating nursing school and served in Australia, New Guineau and the Philippines.

H. Robert Esser
H. Robert Esser served as a messenger with Company F, 30th Division, 127th Infantry in the European Theater.

Judy Davenport
Judy Davenport and her mother, Opal Schamens, joined the WAACs in 1942, the first mother-daughter team in the country to do so.

John Bach
Madison native John Bach was a Sonarman First Class with the U.S. Coast Guard, serving aboard the Thetis, a patrol boat that escorted convoys along the East Coast.

Willard Diefenthaler
Willard Diefenthaler served with his identical twin brother in the 106th Infantry Division in Europe.

Italo Bensoni
Italo Bensoni already had two years experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps [CCC] before he was drafted in the Army at age 21 in 1941.

Gordon Marlow
Gordon Marlow left medical school to serve in the Pacific Theater as a Navy Air Corps dive bomber.

Marjorie Stewart
Marjorie Stewart served stateside both with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and the Women's Army Corps.

Eugene Eckstam
Navy doctor Eugene Eckstam describes the harrowing experience of surviving Operation Tiger just weeks before D-Day in Europe. He served both in Europe and the Pacific.

Annette Howards
Annette Howards joined the Women's Marine Corps and served stateside. She describes the culture shock of boot camp, finding love, and post-war life.

Clayton Chipman
Clayton Chipman was just 18 when the 4th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima. Chipman describes the first nine brutal days of battle before he was shot.

Signe Skott Cooper
Signe Skott Cooper went straight from nursing school into the Army Nursing Corps. She served in the China-Burma-India Theater, a place that often felt like the end of the earth.

Richard Bates
Richard Bates left high school early to join the Army. He describes his experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater.