The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Nolan Albarado survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and remained in Hawaii until 1943. He returned to the...

Melvin L. Baker was born in November 1919 in Marysville which is near his current home in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. He...

There was not much interaction with the New Zealanders on Guadalcanal, according to David Verlander, except for the...

Oliver Brewster was as assigned as a truck driver [Annotator's Note: in the 90th Infantry Division] during the...

Lloyd Dendy was the company bootlegger on Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Peleliu, Palau]. They made a still out of aluminum...

Gerard Dillon and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th...

When Martin Richard was inducted into the service, he could choose his branch of service. You could not volunteer, you...

Toward the end of the World War 2, Alfred Raymond Mosher was put on a train and sent to another camp [Annotator's Note...

Charles T. Edwards is disappointed in that air travel should be faster than the speeds they are flying now. Edwards...

On 5 July [Annotator's Note: 5 July 1945], after refuel and refit in Perth [Annotator's Note: Perth, Australia], John...

While the 35th Infantry [Annotator's Note: 35th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division] waited on Guadalcanal [...

Davis Gordon Mayes was born in February 1919 in Pontotoc, Texas. During his service in World War 2, he served on the...

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