The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Johnny Allegrezza was born in Mississippi in January 1923. He went to school through the ninth grade. His parents...

[Annotator's Note: Charlotte Weiss is a Czechoslovakian born Jew who survived incarceration in a number of...

Wallace Jeffery was near the Buchenwald concentration camp when the war ended in Germany. The camp had been liberated...

Emil Schoonejans volunteered for service in the Navy. He originally wanted to go into the air force. He and a buddy...

[Annotator's Note: Martin Carmody served in the Navy as a pilot flying Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers with Bombing...

Vernon Breen somehow became the bugler for his company [Annotator's Note: Breen was a member of the Intelligence and...

Richard Asbury flew both in Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953] and Vietnam [Annotator's Note: Vietnam...

Joseph Lesniewski got on a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship]. There were only 19...

Since he was a twin-engine pilot, Joseph McGuire had been told he would be a training pilot but was then reassigned to...

Leona Kleiner arrived at Auschwitz [Annotator's Note: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp complex...

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