The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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John St. Germain was born in Saint John, North Dakota in September 1926. He had four brothers and two sisters. Two...

After being liberated [Annotator's Note: from the Santo Tomas internment camp in Manila, Philippines], people were...

[Annotator's Note: Allen Tillery served in the USMC as a Japanese language specialist. For the campaign in the Marshall...

James Weller volunteered as a gung-ho young man looking for trouble. He enjoyed his war years and the people he met....

Thomas Ballew briefly considered joining the Marine Corps but decided that he would wait to be called up. He was...

Philip Schweitzer's first time away from home was his trip to basic training. Schweitzer thinks that at the time, the...

William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. His family moved around frequently because his father worked...

[Annotator's Note: A different interviewer begins asking Selwyn Gilmore questions about his postwar career.] Selwyn...

Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] only had black sand in the southern part of the island. Iwo Jima means...

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