The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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John Noack pitied his copilot because he had to endure that rough take off. They got above the clouds and assembled...

Howard Baroudi was born in 1923 [Annotator’s Note: September 1923] in Schroon Lake but grew up in North Creek, both in...

Arles E. Cole was born in Porum, Oklahoma in December 1923. He grew up there. His childhood was rough. It was the...

Richard R. Ruess was sent to Canada on the St. Lawrence River [Annotator's Note: after being assigned to the 1st...

They had to break the monotony. They would see someone get beat and they would laugh about the way he hollered or the...

They immediately hauled Arthur Pendleton to the emergency Army tent. He was still knocked out at this point [Annotator'...

During one mission when Lowell Brueland escorted allied bombers over Berlin, a flight of eight JU-88s [Annotator’s Note...

Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa] and the 745th Tank Battalion passed right through the Siegfried Lines...

Joseph Simpson witnessed little resistance after his unit crossed the Rhine River. There were hardly any battles. The...

Richard Baile was given a rigid physical which was going well until they gave him the color blind test again. This time...

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