The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Monty Joe Boitnott would like to be thought of as being in the largest and bloodiest war and they won. However,...

[Annotators Note: Masaji Insohita served in the army as a Japanese translator and interrogator in the China-Burma-India...

Robert Shoens was told what the plan was going to be for the Berlin raid. They went over specifics regarding flight...

The second day, Robert L. Williams and the others went to the town of Vierville. They had gotten reports that Vierville...

Buck Donaldson joined the Navy. He went to San Diego [Annotator’s Note: San Diego, California] for boot camp by train....

Joseph LaNier exited San Francisco toward Pearl Harbor. Everything that LaNier saw when he went into the Navy was new...

Lily Myoko [Annotator’s Note: her maiden name was given but was not audible] Sawada was born on 28 September 1927 in...

Once William Garbo returned to G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, he resumed command of his machine gun...

Clayton Fisher thinks that the SBD [Annotator's Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] was the great equalizer. The...

Walter Jacobs was born in Mississippi. His father worked a variety of jobs. Jacobs grew up on a farm that did not have...

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