The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Leonard Lomell and the rest of the 2nd Ranger Battalion loaded the channel steamers a day or two before D-Day [...

Warren Bowersox received a field promotion to sergeant for his fighting in Spicheren, France, though, according to him...

James Craig was right at the Rhine River when the war shifted. They were guarding an electric dam. It was 1944 in...

Clyde East experienced a slow training program after entry into the Canadian Air Force. He was in flying school during...

Calvin Moret was in advance training ready room awaiting instructions for his mission. He was there with another...

James Allen was 16 years old in the spring of 1942 and a junior in high when he decided to join the Navy. In March he...

Richard Scheerer never wrote any of his men after he was wounded and sent home and none of his men wrote him. He did...

Their [Annotator's Note: the 92nd Bombardment Group] first mission was in September [Annotator's Note: September 1942]...

Gerhard Franzky realizes that he messed up the order of events and that when he witnessed his CO [Annotator's Note:...

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