The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Monroe S. Wolyn remembers everyone was happy to be liberated. A bomb group flew in with B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing...

James Weller picked the Army for enlistment because his father had served in World War I in a submarine. The submarine...

Earl Tweed was the longest active of three company commander for his company since he was in action from 16 June to 17...

Robert Inghram was shot down early in the war [Annotator's Note: during the Dieppe raid in August 1942]. He was given...

[Annotator's Note: Philip Schweitzer served in the Army as a combat medic in the 11th Airborne Division and took part...

When Jack Houston was evacuated [Annotator's Note: from Okinawa] he was taken first to Saipan then to Guam. While they...

Selwyn Gilmore came back to the United States aboard a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced...

Louis Conter was born in Ojibwa, Wisconsin in September 1921. He had one younger and one older sister. The family left...

A week or so after they [Annotator's Note: Floyd Dumas and another escaped prisoner of war named Bill Robb] got there,...

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