The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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As a child in Dayton, Ohio Richard Cole was only a half hour bike ride from McCook Army Airfield where he would go to...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was assigned to the 561st Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force as a...

When Charles Coolidge landed in Southern France there was little opposition after the major shelling the Germans took...

The discipline in the Marine Corps helped to make Deens life successful. He is glad that he went through it and the...

Earnest did get his eight landings in. The next time he was going to be making a landing he was on the Saratoga [...

William Leibold wonders if the Tang [Annotator's Note: USS Tang (SS-306)] is still a tomb. The Tang was apparently...

David Roderick was with the 1st Battalion Headquarters and dealt with administrative work during the Battle of the...

John Witmeyer boarded ship on 5 June 1944 for transport across the English Channel. Before Witmeyer crossed the channel...

Monroe S. Wolyn was impressed by the military power of the 8th Air Force. Wolyn’s plane was in the lead group [...

Carl Nygren was delighted that the bombs were dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

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