The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Charles Scheffel laid there and must have passed out. His executive officer told him that Morotti [Annotators Note:...

Robert J. Hutchings was assigned as a stenographer under the command of General Eisenhower [Annotator's Note: General...

Michael Cokinos grew up in Beaumont, Texas. During the Great Depression, life was pretty strict for him. His parents...

Ralph Burch went to signal school in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California]. He was put in the...

Gabriel Kinney's unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), also known as Merrills's...

When Anthony Acevedo first arrived at Berga he could not see the camp. There were political prisoners there but they...

Larry Dawson told Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson and her sister Frina that their transport to America could be arranged so...

Jack Brukman realized that the big problem was that they were bombing from great heights and could not hit the target [...

Joy Skelton was born on Palembang on the island of Sumatra in what is now Indonesia in October 1939. She has two half-...

At 0530 in the morning of 16 December 1944, they were shelled until daybreak then the German guns stopped. John M....

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