The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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James Goodrich and his buddy dug a foxhole. His buddy put a big branch across the top of the hole. Later that night...

After returning to his carrier, Norman Kleiss got a cup of coffee and prepared for his next flight. About that time a...

James Smith was known as Horse [Annotators Note: also as Horse Collar] during his time in the Marine Corps. He earned...

Frank Mancuso’s unit went back to Naples to get more replacements and newer landing craft, landing onshore without...

Edward Shames talks about Herbert Suerth and Suerth's desire to join his platoon. Shames found it funny that Suerth...

Wayne Pierce and his regiment were moved to an airbase in the south of England in anticipation of the start of the...

Johnny Allegrezza went back to France in 1980. He went to see some of his buddies who were buried in the cemetery there...

Mengele [Annotator's Note: Dr. Josef Mengele] told Charlotte Weiss that Rosalie was not strong enough to go on a...

Walter Halloran was born on 25 August 1923 in Chatfield, Minnesota. Growing up on his family’s farm was extremely...

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