The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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John Koenigsberg was born in Amsterdam, Holland [Annotator’s Note: the Netherlands] in August 1937. The war started in...

There were a lot of cases where there were no NCOs [Annotator's Note: non-commissioned officers]. Roland Chaisson says...

While Raymond Wells was in the hospital a driver picked him up and when he got back to his company [Annotator's Note:...

George Sakato had to go and rescue the Lost Battalion [Annotator's Note: elements of the 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry...

Edward Tipper was a member of a military group that received a tremendous amount of recognition. He was 18 or 19 when...

Gowan Duffy had a bazooka [Annotator's Note: man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher weapon] up on the hill....

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

While Lawrence Johnston was working as a scientists at Los Alamos, religious services were held every Sunday. A group...

As they neared Iwo Jima, James Salerno and the others were told that it would not take more than a week to take the...

Barbara Heming's mother worked as a maid on another farm. It was a tough life for her. Her father's brother had...

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