The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Wayne O. Hill was born in Spirit Lake, Idaho in August 1923. His father worked in a logging village as a railroad man....

Gowan Duffy remembers they started to run out of supplies. Patton [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General George...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...

Lawrence Johnston never had a chance to talk to any of the German scientists who had come to the United States,...

During the war James Salerno did not like the Japanese and had nothing nice to say about them. The Japanese soldiers...

Germany was changing for the better at that time. Barbara Heming's mother still had to work but was no longer working...

Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...

Thomas Murphy fought in World War 2 because he did not have a choice [Annotator's Note: Murphy was drafted into the...

[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...

Orville Bethard was attending Washington High School when he learned about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in...

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