The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Wagner grew up in Duluth, Minnesota. She attended high school and college in there.Her father was a ladies tailor. He...

Robert Kean slept on the way back home, knowing no one was going to torpedo them. It was easy duty at the end of the...

James Smith feels there are parts of World War 2 that can be pretty instructive to the future. He believes that with...

The whole world was at war. Rackley had to read about what was happening after the war because it was such a broad one...

Raymond Wells was born in Eagle, Colorado in April 1922. He was living in Secora, New Mexico and remembers the day the...

Dachau

Fred Whitaker crossed the channel [Annotator’s Note: the English Channel between England and France] and landed at Le...

Samuel W. Smith passed his instrument school training a week before graduation. He got a 250 dollar allowance to buy a...

At Northwestern University, Lauren Swinney's speech fraternity, Zeta Phi Eta, was sent to Glenview Naval Air Station....

Walter Halloran returned to Fort Huachuca in Arizona with his wife and child [Annotator’s Note: this was following his...

Vernon Alexander was a history major in college. He ran into a situation about 30 miles outside of Innsbruck, Austria...

Oral History