The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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[Annotator's Note: Keith Renstrom served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a Gunnery Sergeant in Company F, 2nd Battalion,...

Josephine Pescatore remembers pot belly stoves at the end of the tent which kept the whole tent warm. One evening a...

Herbert Heilbrun was not working the day Pearl Harbor occurred [Annotator's Note: on 7 December 1941]. On that Sunday...

[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal joined Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division as an...

There were a lot of good Christian German people. After Germany surrendered, Daniel Farley was assigned to occupation...

Leonard Lomell served with Company D, 2nd Ranger Battalion, United States Army. That Rangers were volunteers and aimed...

Around 1 or 2 January 1945, Warren Bowersox and the 274th Infantry Regiment [Annotator’s Note: of the 70th Infantry...

James Craig was waiting to get on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank] to cross to the beach [Annotator's Note...

Leonard Gaj did not consider staying in the service, he could not wait to get out. He took advantage of the G.I. Bill [...

Clyde East was born in 1921 on a Virginia tobacco farm. He had eight brothers and sisters. His father was a share...

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