The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Richard Ford heard about the training incident at Slapton Sands [Annotators Note: Ford is referring to Exercise Tiger,...

Robert L. Williams did not know the men of Easy Company [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute...

Gerald Wayne Lux joined the service to give the Japanese what they had coming to them after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

Robert L. Donovan boarded a troop transport to go to Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea. The infantry landed ahead of them. As...

Kenneth J. Hanson [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 410th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] saw combat in...

Lavenia Breaux had to find out through the grapevine that her friend had been killed. Sensitive information like that...

Harry Quinn entered Camp Shelby in September [Annotator’s Note: 1943] and stayed there for about a week. From there,...

Gary Tate was born in December 1924 and graduated from high school at 16 years old before the Japanese bombed Pearl...

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