The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Dominic Martello was in the barracks laying on the floor, unable to walk or get up [Annotator's Note: during liberation...

Munich was a big city, larger then New Orleans. The area around the railroad depots in Munich were absolutely destroyed...

Raymond Zager crossed the Rhine River into Austria. The Third Army had laid down a blanket of fog to cover the convoy....

Within hours any ship passing the destroyer escorts loaded with prisoners would receive prisoners from those destroyer...

Richard Cole heard that some of the aircraft had cameras on them but his was not one of them. The picture of Doolittle...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was drafted and sworn into the army in July 1942. After taking aptitude tests, he was...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

William Leibold never stopped believing that he would make it home to his wife. The reunion with his wife on his parent...

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