The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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When they were in the prisoner of war camp in Serbia the Serbs would go out on work details. Milosevich was able to...

In his discussion of his first tour of duty, Kenneth Beckman shares an anecdote about his 25th mission. [Annotator's...

Lynn Compton went to England on the Queen Elizabeth ship with thousands of troops. He joined the Easy Company outfit...

John Noack’s navigator wrote a letter home in code. Noack was allowed to write two letters home per month. They were...

Clinton E. Riddle was born in Loudon County, Tennessee in February 1921. He was the only child in his family and grew...

During World War 2, Douglas Holmes Blair was assigned to the USS Hampden County (LST-803) as the fire control man and...

Courtland Claus could see buildings just beyond the dock when he arrived in India. He saw a stagecoach going by. It was...

The Japanese commander of the camp, stood up on a platform and spoke in Japanese with an interpreter, and says, "The...

Norman Mineta, his mother, father, and two sisters moved to Evanston, Illinois rather than living in Chicago where his...

James McEnery is a Catholic, Irish-American from Brooklyn. He considers anyone from his background who is not...

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