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Format |
Gender |
Conflict / Years |
Branch |
Unit |
Theater |
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| Abaied, James K. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Navy | USS Laffey (DD-724) | Atlantic, Pacific | Kirkland, NY | Supported D-Day landings Transcribed by Daniel Keefe |
| Abbott, Katherine | Video Transcription |
Female | World War 2 | US Army | Pacific | South Glens Falls | Interviewed by Hudson Falls H.S. Transcribed by Heidi Holdridge Frantz |
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| Abbott, Lucy | Video Transcription |
Female | World War 2 | US Army Women's Corps (WACS) | Kingston, NY | Interviewed at the American Legion Post, Saugerties, NY Transcribed by Jenna Batchelder |
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| Abilo (Abitabilo), Anthony C. | Video Memoir |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | 18th Depot Supply Squadron | Mediterranean | New York, NY | |
| Abramson, Edward | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | 399th Infantry Regiment 100th Infantry Division |
European | Brooklyn, NY | Relations with French civilians and soldiers Transcribed by Tee Branch |
| Achiron, Morton | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | 3rd Marine Division | Pacific | New York, NY | Forward observer on Iwo Jima Transcribed by Tom Timmons |
| Adams, Henry, Jr | Video | Male | 1948 - 1953 | USNavy USArmy |
172nd Infantry Regiment 43rd Infantry Division |
Albany, NY | Interviewed by Ken and June Hunter | |
| Addison, Robert A. | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | 1st Marine Raider Battalion | Pacific | Alliance, Ohio | Interviewed by Hudson Falls H.S., |
| Addison, Robert A. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | 1st Marine Raider Battalion | Pacific | Alliance, Ohio | Interviewed by the NYS Military Museum Transcribed by Eileen O'Hara |
| Addison, Robert | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | 1st Marine Raider Battalion | Pacific | Alliance, Ohio | Group interview by the Hudson Falls HS, War in the Pacific v.2, Hudson Falls HS |
| Adsit, Melissa & John | Video Transcription |
World War 2 | Civilian | Baldwinsville, NY | Interviewed by Baldwinsville Messenger and the Baldwinsville Public Library in 1994. Transcribed by Niloufar Saririan |
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| Aiello, William P. | Video Transcription |
Male | Vietnam War | US Marine Corps | Lima Company, 3rd Battalion 26th Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division | Brooklyn, NY | Wounded at Khe Sann Transcribed by Stephen Leccese |
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| Alagna, Richard Gregory | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Corps | 445th Bomb Group 700th Bomb Squadron |
European | Brooklyn, NY | Ball-turrent gunner on a B-17 Transcribed by Kathy Olson |
| Albanese, Francois V. | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Army | 105th Infantry Regiment 27th Infantry Division |
Pacific | New York, NY | Audio only Recorded by Francis O'Brien |
| Albanese, Mario M. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | 315th Infantry Regiment 79th Infantry Division |
European Mediterranean |
Gloversville, NY | Heavy weapons (mortars and machine guns) Transcribed by Ryan Leland |
| Alberico, Anthony | Video Transcription Memoir |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | 8th Air Force | European | Hyde Park, NY | Transcribed by Joshua Fontana |
| Alden, John D. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 Cold War |
US Navy | Lamprey (Ship: SS-372) Seacat (Ship: SS-399) Palau (Ship: CVE 122) |
Pacific | Ithaca, NY | Served on Submarine in WW2 Transcribed by Stephen Leccese |
| Alderman, Theodore Robert | Video Transcription |
Male | Cold War | US Army | 1st Maint. Battalion 3rd Support Brigade |
Europe | Schenectady, NY | Served 1965-1969 Transcribed by Christopher Philippo |
| Alexander, Art (Arthur) | Video | Male | World War Two | US Army | 101st Airborne Division 401st Glider Regiment |
Europe | Baldwinsville, NY | Interviewed by the Baldwinsville Messenger and the Baldwinsville Public Library Transcribed by Justin Michaud |
| Allen, Barbara Rosenthal | Video Transcription |
Female | World War Two | US Navy | Brooklyn Naval Hospital | American | Albany, NY | Laboratory technician in the Navy Transcribed by Tiki Beatty |
| Allen, Hector | Video Transcription |
Male | Korean War | US Army | 9th Infantry Regiment 2nd Infantry Division |
Troy, NY | Kumwha Valley, Boomerang, Kansas Line Transcribed by Sean Quinn |
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| Allen, Lloyd Wayne | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 Korean War |
US Marine Corps | Occupation Forces in Japan 1st Marine Division in Korea |
Albany, NY | Inteviewed by Ken and June Hunter Transcribed by Oliver Groom |
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| Allen, William (Bill) | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | 505th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Squadron |
Pacific | Interviewed by the American Legion Transcribed by Daniel Keefe |
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| Allison, William Stewart | Video | Male | Vietnam War | US Navy | USS Kitty Hawk (VA-42) USS Independence (VA-75) |
Elizabeth, NJ | ||
| Allocco, Thomas Nicholas | Video Transcription |
Male | Operation Desert Shield/ Desert Storm | US Marine Corps (67-70) US Air Force Reserve (82-08) |
439th Airlift Wing | Rochester, NY | Public Affairs Office Transcribed by Mark Orr |
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| Alpert, Stanley | Video | Male | World War 2 | United States. Army Air Forces | 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron |
European | Brooklyn, NY | |
| Altieri, Michael A. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | 48th Reinforcement battalion, 39th Machine Records Unit (Mobile), 36th Machine Records Unit (Fixed) |
European | Schenectady, NY | |
| Altshuler, Herbert | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | Pacific | Queensbury, NY | Inteviewed at Hudson Falls HS | |
| Altshuler, Herbert | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | Pacific | Queensbury, NY | Home Interview 1 | |
| Altshuler, Herbert | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | Pacific | Queensbury, NY | Home Interview 2 | |
| Altshuler, Herbert | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | Pacific | Queensbury, NY | Ostrander Interview | |
| Amabile, Ernest | Video Transcription |
Male | Vietnam War | US Army | 11th Armored Cavalry | Interviewed by Joe Anastasio Transcribed by Kathy Olson |
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| Amborski, Leonard | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | Civilian | Buffalo, NY | Research Physicist Transcribed by Kathy Olson |
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| Ames, Donald P. | Audio | Male | World War 2 | US Army | Special Engineering Detachment | Kirkwood, MO | Audio Only | |
| Amthor, Bianci, nee Gangregorio | Video Transcription |
Female | World War 2 | US Army Nurse Corps | 178th General Hospital | European | Interviewed by Senator Patty Ritchie's office, with an introduction by the Senator. Transcribed by Sidney Kriz |
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| Amthor, Bianca, nee Giangregorio | Video Transcription |
Female | World War 2 | US Army Nurse Corps | 178th General Hospital | European | Watertown, NY | Interviewed by Hudson Falls H.S., Hudson Falls, NY Transcribed by Mary Reilly |
| Amy, Howard E., Jr | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | 27th Infantry Division 106th Field Artillery Battalion |
Buffalo, NY | Wounded on Okinawa transcribed by Ben Stoline |
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| Anderson, George Douglas | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | European Mediterranean |
Peekskill, NY | Glider Pilot Transcribed by Paul Stambach |
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| Anderson, George Douglas | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | European Mediterranean |
Peekskill, NY | Extracted from a compilation of interviews by Assemblyman Marc Butler and the Herkimer County Community College | |
| Anderson, Robert S. L. | Video Transcription |
Male | Vietnam War | US Army | MP Company | Vietnam | Newark, NY | Transcribed by Daniel Keefe |
| Anderson, Ross | Video | World War 2 | US Army | 28th Infantry Division | ||||
| Anderson, Theodore | Video Transcription |
World War 2 | US Army | 6803es Service Company | European | Hoosick Falls, NY | Interviewed by the Hoosick Falls Historical Society Transcribed by Jason Zinzow |
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| Andrecheck, James S. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | 459th Bomb Group 757th Bomb Squadron |
Mediterranean | Henderson, NY | Ball Turret Gunner Transcribed by Mark Orr |
| Andrew, Emerson 'Emy' | Video Transcription |
World War 2 | US Navy | USS Weaver (DE-741) | Pacific | Hoosick Falls, NY | Interviewed by Philip Leonard of the Hoosick Falls Historical Society Transcribed by Lydia Boruta |
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| Andrews, Harold F. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Corps | Air Transport Command | China, Burma, India | Albany, NY | Flying the Hump Transcribed by Kathy Olson |
| Andriello, Sebastian D. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | 39th Regiment 9th Division |
European | New York City | Wounded in Belgium Transcribed by Kathy Olson |
| Anello, Helen | Video Transcription |
Female | World War 2 | Civilian | Queensbury, NY | Interviewed by Murphy of Hudson Falls H.S. Transcribed by Kathy Olson |
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| Annicchiarico, Catello Charles | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Navy | James O'Hara (Ship: APA- 90) O'Hare (Ship: DD- 889) |
Pacific | Dobbs Ferry, NY | Saipan, Leyte, Iwo Jima, Luzon Transcribed by Kathy Olson |
| Appleyard, Charles H. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | South American | Yonkers, NY | Interviewed by Andrea Clark of Hudson Falls HS Transcribed by Nathalia Walker |
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| Appleyard, Charles H. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | South American | Yonkers, NY | 2011 interview by David Sears. | |
| Archibald, Julius A., Jr. | Video Transcription |
Male | Korean War | US Air Force | Air Force Research and Development Command | Korea | New York, NY | Interviewed by Tenefer Scipip of Plattsburgh State University Transcribed by Ryan Shippee |
| Arcuri, Valentino | Transcription | Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Corps | 407th Hq and Base Service Squadron | European | Newburgh, NY | Transcription only. Interviewed by Michele Starkey for The Sentinel (Orange County, NY) |
| Aretakis, John 'Artie' | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Marine Corps | 28th Marines | Pacific | Brooklyn, NY | Iwo Jima Transcribed by Mark Orr |
| Ariano, Michael J. | Video Transcription |
Male | Iraq War, 2003- | US Army | 10th Mountain Division | Bronx, NY | Platoon Leader Transcribed by Stephen Leccese |
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| Armao, John A. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | 79th General Hospital | European | New York, NY | Transcribed by Ekaz Qureshi |
| Armstrong, Earl Delmar | Video Transcription |
Male | Cold War, 1954-1956 | US Navy | USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697) | Pacific | Hudson Falls, NY ? | Witnessed the kamikaze attacks on the USS Bunker Hill Transcribed by Daniel Keefe |
| Armstrong, James R. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Navy | Pacific | Gloversville, NY | Interviewed by the Herkimer Fulton County Historical Society Transcribed by Rick Bennett. |
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| Armstrong, James | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Navy | Gloversville, NY | Extracted from a compilation of interviews by Assemblyman Marc Butler and the Fulton County Historical Society | ||
| Arnold, Ronald A. | Video Transcription |
Male | Korean War | US Marine Corps | 1st Marine Division 1st Marines |
Buffalo, NY | BAR Gunner, night patrols Transcribed by Kathy Olson |
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| Arthur, Alexander, Jr. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 Korean War |
US Marine Corps | 1st Marine Division | East Rochester, NY | Garrison duty in China after WW2 Transcribed by Tom Timmons |
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| Arthur, Charles Patrick | Video Transcription |
Male | Cold War, 1954-1956 | US Army | 9th Infantry Division | Ticonderoga, NY | Interviewed by Ken and June Hunter Transcribed by Victor Perez |
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| Assenheimer, Ed | Video Transcription |
World War 2 | Interviewed by the Baldwinsville Messenger and the Baldwinsville Public Library Transcribed by Tracy J Czub |
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| Asthalter, Justus M. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | 689th Engineers Base Equipment Co. | Pacific | Neversink, NY | Heavy equipment operator Transcribed by Daniel Keefe |
| Athenas, Harry W. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | 1709th Signal Service Bn 9th Air Force |
European | Margaretville, NY | Omaha Beach, truck driver Transcribed by Maggie Oldendorf |
| Atkinson, Malcolm J. | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army | 36th Infantry Division | Mediterranean | Hartford, NY | POW Transcribed by Paul Stambach |
| Atwell, Allan P. | Video | Male | World War 2 | US Army | 28th Military Police Platoon 28th Infantry Division, |
European | Binghamton, NY | |
| Austin, Charles Franklin | Video Transcription |
Male | Vietnam War | US Coast Guard US Army |
4th Infantry Division | Whitehall, NY | Two tours of duty in Vietnam Transcribed by Mark Orr |
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| Austin, Charles James | Video Transcription |
Male | Vietnam War | US Marine Corps | 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines | Whitehall, NY | Evacuation of Saigon Transcribed by Mary Reilly |
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| Austin, Jerry Edward | Video | Male | Vietnam War | US Marine Corps | 4th Division | Vietnam | Ticonderoga, NY | |
| Avellino, Anthony | Video Transcription |
Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | Stationed in Iceland Transcribed by Nicholas Seabrook |
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| Avellino, Anthony | Male | World War 2 | US Army Air Forces | Extracted from a compilation of interviews by Assemblyman Marc Butler and the Fulton County Historical Society | ||||
| Avy, Stanley | Video | Male | World War, 1939-1945 | United States. Navy | Pacific | New York, NY | White Hudson Falls H.S., Hudson Falls, NY |
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| Azzarelli, Vincent | Video | Male | Persian Gulf War | US Air Force | 552nd Airborne warning and control systems, (AWAC) | Middle East | Buffalo, NY | Interviewed by Heather A.Wade of the Chemung County Historical Society |