Search results

Map is loading...

When President Truman [Annotator's Note: Truman, Harry S., 33rd President of the United States] dropped the atomic...

Melvin Abadie assisted in the landing at Guam after the original landing. They first bombarded Guam before the landing...

Helen Gagel was 20 years old when she was in the Philippines. She thinks the nurses get a bad name. Some of her nurses...

Henry Langrehr had heard about the paratroopers. When he went to join, he told them that is what he wanted. At that...

It was during the Great Depression that Milton Muelder and his brother went to Germany to study in 1930 and 1931. At...

When Elizabeth Gibbens completed basic training, she was sent to Camp Shanks, New York. She found it exciting to get...

After his examinations, J. L. Giroir was sent to San Diego, California for basic training. Because he had been a...

Close to Nancy, France, William Jucksch first engaged in combat. His division [Annotator's Note: Jucksch served in the...

[Annotator's Note: Bernard Smith flew his final five missions with "bastard" crews or crews made of men who did not...

Anderson Wilson moved inland from Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France] and awaited orders. They were part of...

Louis Liberato came home to Norfolk, Virginia on the USNS General Simon B. Buckner. He stayed a couple of days there...

James Billingsley was treated well as a replacement. In combat troops, it is a different thing altogether. He never...

Oral History