The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Not all of them were happy to see women [Annotator's Note: Wagner is referring to US Naval Officers in San Francisco]....

On 1 April 1943 Raymond Wells boarded a troop train to New York where they went aboard a ship. His brother Irwin, who...

Fred Whitaker remembers the Battle of the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...

Samuel W. Smith was sent to Lincoln, Nebraska to pick up his combat crew. When he got there, he ran into his friend...

Lauren Swinney picked up words during the war like ersatz which meant a substitute for something. She recalls the pin-...

Walter Halloran packed up and left his family to serve his first tour of duty in Vietnam. He was not alone in pondering...

Vernon Alexander's 103rd Infantry Division had met the 5th Army at the Brenner Pass and was in Austria on V-E Day [...

Robert Swan left the island [Annotator's Note: Midway Island] around 8 or 10 June [Annotator's Note: June 1942]. Even...

That was the end of combat for Harold DeForest. After DeForest got out of the hospital he was supposed to go back to...

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