The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Earl Tweed spent time in England before the invasion. His company [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 115th...

For Robert Inghram, Dieppe was his big day [Annotator's Note: the Allied raid on Dieppe, France in August 1942]. That...

Ralph Weymouth's first combat action was off Guadalcanal. They were supporting the landings on the seventh [Annotator's...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

After a 24 hour leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time], Donald Campbell reported to...

[Annotator's Note: The interview starts with the crew setting up.] Selwyn Preston Gilmore, Sr. was born in Berwick,...

Edward G. Willette was born in August 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. He and his sister, the children of a milk salesman,...

Floyd Dumas' father worked for the New York Central Railroad in Malone, New York as a boilermaker. Dumas had three...

Ralph F. Lafferty traveled across the United States by train until he arrived at Newport News [Annotator's Note:...

Gus Gikas was in India when he heard that the Germans had surrendered. Later, he heard of the Japanese surrender. Gikas...

Oral History