The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

John Witmeyer was first wounded in early July of 1944, just a month after the invasion of Normandy began. He went out...

In January 1944, Philip Nelson was training on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] in San Diego [Annotator’s...

Following the war and his discharge, John St. Germain worked on farms in North Dakota and Montana. He moved to seek...

Delano Roosevelt Brister was born in Sieper, Louisiana in 1933. The town was an old logging camp area. Trains were used...

One day in late 1945 Allen Tillery was called in to the office of the colonel and informed that his application for the...

When the war ended, Thomas Ballew's unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 231st Searchlight Battalion] was in Furth...

One of the worst times Philip Schweitzer experienced was the month that he spent on the plateau on New Guinea. Another...

After being discharged from the service, William McCowen attended college at Denver University [Annotator's Note:...

When the Japanese forces attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7...

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