The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Wahlen said he hesitated talking about the war when he came home, but sometimes the pressure was put on him to talk....

Freddie Ohr came running out of the wave and he did not see the boat anymore. He made two or three passes that low....

[Annotator's Note: Donald Hoff served in the Navy as a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless...

Woods was upset after the war because he wasn't given the benefits of the G.I. Bill. A friend of his his who had been...

Byron Othello Wilkins made sergeant on 3 December [Annotators Note: 3 December 1944] and met the new captain around...

James Livaudais and his glider infantrymen met up with paratroopers after crossing the Merderet causeway. The...

Howard Cain sailed across the Pacific on a troop ship to Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was assigned to...

Otis Kight was participating in flight operations when the Japanese attacked Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (...

Eveline Peardon and the Normandy population felt they could live again after the liberation of their region by the...

James Muri landed on Midway around 29 May [Annotator's Note: 29 May 1942]. At that moment he did not know what the geo...

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