The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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The level of camaraderie began to diminish because they were dealing with different people. If they hadn't gotten...

The Wagners served for about three and a half years. They got out of the service in 1946 and put the war behind them....

Raymond Wells was by himself with a .30 caliber machine gun and took out three enemy snipers. He moved to San Pietro...

Fred Whitaker was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in July 1925. He had one sister. He enlisted on 17 June 1943. He...

Samuel W. Smith was asked if he would be a lead crew. It would cut down his missions to 30. He would have to have more...

Lauren Swinney wrote an hour long show called Lauren Does Bacall. She has been planning to perform the show but Jim [...

John McCarthy reached Pearl Harbor on his ship [Annotator’s Note: the repair ship USS Laertes (AR-20)]. They waited...

Archie Maltbie was born in 1923 in Turlock, California. He had an ordinary life growing up in Turlock. He focused on...

Basic training was intense for Thomas Murphy. He was impressed by the fact that there were illiterate people in the...

Harold DeForest fought in World War 2 because he loves this country and felt that it was worth fighting for. His...

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