The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

Bernard Friedenberg had his basic training at Fort Hancock. When Pearl Harbor was attacked, he was working with his...

John McConn and his outfit spent three weeks training to cross the Rhine River in boats. The first boat to cross with...

Manfred Klepper heard a knock on the family apartment door at dusk [Annotator's Note: on the evening of 9 November 1938...

Cleveland Peterson and the 59th Air Service Squadron left the United States for India with as much aircraft repair...

Madeleine Vignier Peters was born in the little village of [Annotator's Note: town name not discernible] in France. She...

Since there was a war, Robert Madison said, he was grateful that he got to serve, even though there was discrimination...

[Annotator's Note: Wilson Shoughrue served in the Army as a rifleman in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 424th Infantry...

In August 1944, a few months after the landings at Normandy, the US Army high command decided to move the 92nd Infantry...

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