The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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The Germans that Standifer met were as good as the American soldiers. The Germans may have been better earlier in the...

To Raymond Zager the Maginot line was easily conquered. They then came to the Siegfried Line. They advanced through...

Crump got to Panteloria and was alongside the dock. All of the German prisoners of war did the work. They were younger...

They were two days at sea when the PA system came on informing them that the group was headed for Tokyo [Annotators...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft I in Barth, Germany after he bailed out of his plane [...

[Annotators note: Charles Coolidge starts this segment in the middle of conversation as the camera started recording...

Most of the tests had to do with navigation. They got off of the ship in Pearl Harbor. Eventually Earnest was told that...

William Leibold was topside with O'Kane [Annotator's Note: US Navy Rear Admiral Richard O'Kane had been the commanding...

For John Witmeyer, every day in combat brought a new story, and Witmeyer served over 200 days on the front lines as a...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers the missions they went on usually had between 100 and 300 airplanes. Many missions were...

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