Search results

Map is loading...

Quintana was born in McComb, Mississippi on December 15th, 1921. McComb was a railroad town. The majority of the...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. was born in March 1920 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of eight children and was...

Arthur L. Eads met his wife not long after he returned home from World War 2. He married her in February 1946. He...

[Annotator's Note: Yukio Kawamoto served in the Army as a Japanese interpreter with the 37th Infantry Division in the...

When John Votrobeck arrived at the base [Annotator's Note: in Freemantle, Australia], he was assigned to Submarine...

After Quintana went through boot camp, he came out feeling like he could fight anyone. They prepared the men in boot...

Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. got his orders in May 1943. [Annotator's Note: Someone off-camera interrupts Snyder.] Snyder had...

Arthur L. Eads [Annotator's Note: as a 1st class shipfitter for the 133rd Naval Construction Battalion] was on a ship...

Sidney Grossman was discharged as a Yeoman 3rd Class on 22 June 1946 and went to the University of Connecticut [...

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

Joseph Vater did not know what would happen to him after he had to surrender. He felt helpless and stuck. He knew...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Smith where he was when he heard the news of the atomic bombs being...

Oral History