The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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What they [Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves and his fellow crewmen aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200)] didn't...

Kalil recalls the events that took place on 16 December of 1944. They woke to artillery fire around 5:30 a.m. The...

Zawada realized the mission was a failure when they were under tank fire outside of Hammelburg and when he drove the...

Roger Shaw decided to be a doctor after his service because he wanted more education. He quickly finished his...

Richard Ford was born in Erie, Pennsylvania on the Great Lakes. He had two sisters and was the youngest one in the...

Inouye helped liberate a village as well. One of the churches in the village had a high steeple. He asked the priest if...

Monty Joe Boitnott never got the Garand rifle in his outfit. The first things they got did not even have a bayonet but...

[Annotator's Note: Masaji Insohita served in the Army as a Japanese translator and interrogator in the China-Burma-...

Robert Shoens knew that the planes coming towards him were not the much hoped for escort. In the briefing room after...

The medics tagged Robert L. Williams with stating that he was suffering from combat exhaustion and he was brought to...

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