The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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During the Soviet era, there was not much food, so they did not keep kosher diets. They had to go to the grocery store...

Hans Siverts remembers Sunday, 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1941; the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Defying orders, Francis Neilson took pictures and kept a journal of his flights, and later put together a book that,...

Raymond Urban was called back for Korea but spent his time at Camp Pendleton [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]...

Julian Gould Brunt was a Platoon Sergeant [Annotator's Note: in the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion] at the beginning of...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is muffled.] Rockie Blunt served with the 333rd Infantry Regiment, 84th Infantry Division...

Kanaya never tried to escape until after they left camp in Poland in January of 1945. That is when opportunities came...

To Dr. Roscoe Brown, strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they [Annotator's Note:...

Joseph Hairston ended up at a camp 100 miles south of Tucson [Annotator's Note: Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona...

Sumner Whitten would rent his car out for five dollars per night. Whitten took his graduation leave in New England then...

Crismon and Malcolm Higgins talked over what they wanted to do. Higgins told him to go down to the back of the plane...

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