The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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The second day they were run out by the Japanese again [Annotators Note: On Okinawa, April 1945]. Deen notes that it...

Earnest then had to make a decision, he was already a 2nd lieutenant in the Army but he was not sure if he wanted to be...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

The artillery in the Hurtgen Forest was tree burst artillery which prevented men from digging foxholes in the cold...

John J. Witmeyer, known all his life as JJ, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1921. He lived in only two different...

Monroe S. Wolyn would not return fire if it was anti-aircraft fire. If it was enemy fighters, however, they would...

Carl Nygren remembers Washington, D.C. was a segregated town. Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,...

Charles Dragich was on a “hell ship” [Annotator’s Note: unmarked Japanese ships used to transport Allied prisoners of...

Marvin H. Gohlke was on a combat patrol. They were supposed to get an object or area. He was on the extreme left flank...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks bomber pilot John Paul how he managed his crew.] The military is not a...

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