The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Charles Fitts, Jr. does not know what he would have been if not for the war. Before the war, Fitts wanted to be a left...

Theodore Finkbeiner shipped out of Cape Cod aboard the USS George Washington [Annotators Note: SS George Washington] in...

Connick recalls the atmosphere of New Orleans during the war. He remembers men being replaced by stars in the window [...

For Earl Ervin Clark to be selected for the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, he had to submit three letters of...

Norman Ikari recalls Pearl Harbor very well. It was a Sunday morning and Ikari was sitting in his house in East Los...

Loevsky was taken to a German headquarters and was marched through the streets of Berlin past angry crowds. He could...

Edward Tipper credits paratrooper training with assisting in making the attack on Carentan a success. The decision was...

Gowan Duffy saw the French resistance fighters. They did not associate with them. He assumed they were finding hidden...

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

Oral History