The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Theodore Van Kirk remembers receiving word that President Harry Truman had approved the plans to drop the bomb and to...

Jesse Schraub served in the Army as a mortar man in Company A of the 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion and took part in...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] Edwin B. Cottrell and his unit...

Alex Carter Sr. went to Southern France. They used 50-cycle electricity. Carter met a girl that spoke perfect English....

The fog in England was so bad that Alfred Pierse Murphy ran into a parked jeep on his return to the base from the PX [...

Betty Masket started back in school in September [Annotator's Note: September 1945] and graduated that year or the year...

They [Annotator's Note: Anthony Acevedo and his fellow soldiers of the 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division...

During the Battle of the Bulge, Norris Waddill was serving as a messenger. He came upon a sergeant he had met before...

Zhanna Dawson had to find a place of refuge after leaving the death march [Annotator's Note: starting in December 1941...

Salvador Guercia was born in February 1926 in Long Beach, Mississippi. He lived on his grandfather's farm until he was...

Oral History