The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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George Sakato recalled that they took that hill then had to take a few others [Annotator's Note: during fighting in...

Samuel W. Smith remembers they were attached to the Army. It was the Army Air Corps. In 1949, they started the Air...

Gowan Duffy remembers that in between battles, his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 141st Field Artillery Battalion] would...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...

To Lawrence Johnston, one of the great things at Los Alamos was that every Monday night a lecture was held with a...

George Morgan was tasked at Iwo Jima to swim to a peninsula in the island and place a battery operated light on it. It...

Archie Maltbie flew one of his last missions of the war against a very large German ammunition dump. There was a huge...

After Bougainville, James Salerno and the Raiders went to New Zealand for some R...

Through the American Red Cross, Barbara Heming's mother was able to locate her parents. They were living in the very...

Thomas Murphy spent eight or ten weeks in the 23rd General Hospital [Annotators Note: after being wounded in the side...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Oral History