The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Joe Crandall believes that the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944,...

The US Navy had planes ready to help out at Wake Island but the admiral in charge figured that it was going to be too...

more missions after D-Day and then returned to the United States. He was in Milwaukie on V-E Day and in Louisiana when...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Bernard Marcus was in the army reserves during the Korean War. He was not called up for active duty. The Defense...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Dietzel served in the USAAF as a copilot on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in the...

Virgil Faust's first mission overseas was to Flushing, Belgium, which was a milk run [Annotator's Note: slang term used...

Herbert W. Ridyard benefited from his service and combat all during his later life. It helped him physically, mentally...

James "Jim" Geisler reached England [Annotator's Note: in November 1944] and then spent time in France, Belgium and...

Ora Hicks was one of the nurses to attend Yale University [Annotator's Note: Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut...

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