The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotators Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...

Joseph Armanini describes explaining why he missed the target from the previous mission to Colonel Harding [Annotators...

Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

Oscar Johnson was taken to Frankfurt after being held in Bonn for a short time. All he gave the enemy was his name,...

One night, Lois Meyer was coming back on base at Parris Island and was wondering where her husband was. There had been...

Before George Wichterich went overseas he was in Camp Miles Standish near Boston for a couple weeks getting his shots...

They would get up at four in the morning on Pavavu. They were in King (K) Co. 3-1 [Annotators Note: K Company, 3rd...

Being Captured

David Roderick went to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey for 10 days. The men were checked for health and packed everything while...

John Howland and his B-17 bomber crewmates were assigned to the 381st Bomb Group based at Ridgewell, England. They...

Constance Negrotto saw a lot during the war that she had never expected to see. She helped the war effort by working...

Oral History