The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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[Annotators Note: John Vessey served in the army as the First Sergeant of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery,...

Nevin Sledge was born in Alva, Mississippi in February 1921. His father was a farmer. They moved to the Mississippi...

Some days after eliminating the machine gun position, Romus Burgin and his fellow Marines faced another machine gun...

As a 13 year old, David Yoho did not have friends of draft age. He did keep company with older boys and took on a tough...

They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...

William Barnes manned a 20 millimeter antiaircraft gun aboard USS PC-590. When an enemy plane came at the ship it...

[Annotator's Note: Herbert Heilbrun is showing a photograph of Lyle Pearson, a squadronmate of Heilbrun's, and himself...

Edwin McAuliffe remembers everyone having a Victory garden during the war. The McAuliffes also had chickens. McAuliffe'...

Clyde East shot down his second German fighter just prior to the Battle of the Bulge near Frankfurt, Germany. He was on...

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