The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Jack Werner's worst experience in the war was not viewing dead bodies at Kwajalein [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer returned home after his 27th mission in Europe as a tail gunner on a Boeing B-17...

One memorable experience that came to mind for William Beaman was when his submarine, the USS Flasher (SS-249), sank...

John Symons started out with P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft]. Chennault [Annotator's...

[Annotators Note: Janice Benario served in the navy as a member of the WAVES and worked with ULTRA intercepts decoding...

Rosa was part of a wealthier bunch according to Church. Church went back after the war to find her but she had gone...

William Lansford served as a machine gunner in the weapons platoon of Company E, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on...

Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet] did not receive...

Sidney Philips remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor while sitting at a drug store counter on the corner of Dauphin and...

When Snapp arrived at the hotel [Annotators Note: in Sweetwater, Texas for WASP training] there was roughly thirty to...

They moved to Palermo. They did some road work there and tried to catch up with the infantry.Fortunately, they were not...

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