The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were...

After the combat that Charles Radford initially saw, a feeling of hatred began brewing towards the Germans. The fact...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13 (VT-13),...

Charles Fitts, Jr. was born in December 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He lived there until he was about four years old....

The men learned to pack parachutes and jump from a tower. They had to pack the first 10 parachutes they would use at...

They [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] retreated about eight or ten miles...

After coming back to the United States Raymond Wells took a train to meet his wife in Aberdeen, North Dakota. On the...

George Sakato was born in Colton, California at a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific hub for the Railroad company. His...

Samuel W. Smith remembers his flight engineer telling him that he dropped a screwdriver in the oil chamber. The B-24 [...

Gowan Duffy remembers the German planes would start at one end of the beach strafing and go on to the other end. [...

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