The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Gerhard Franzky remembers Leipzig before the war as being a very historical city with very old opera houses and...

Walter Imahara was born in February 1937 in Florin, California, a farming community just outside of Sacramento. His...

Asked to recount the occasion when he was taken prisoner, Joe Pigott recalled that it was after they blew the bridge at...

Gus Blass, II wrote a book in 1999. One day his granddaughter asked him what a Dear John letter was, and why they...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

Herbert Weatherwax was drafted into the military when he was 24 years old. He had a problem with alcohol while he was...

The B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] appealed to William Smith as an airplane. The...

From Carentan [Annotator's Note: Battle of Carentan, 10 to 14 June 1944, Carentan, France], Bradford Clark Freeman...

In late October 1944, Jones Quincy Adams, Jr. was sent to Naples, Italy by ship. The voyage took almost two weeks....

[Annotator's Note: Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. talks about local history.] People were allowed to move onto the old...

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