The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Michael Cokinos was only in charge of Russian prisoners for a short amount of time. The Russians were prisoners of the...

For Paul Hilliard, The National WWII Museum obtaining an SBD [Annotators Note: Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber] is a...

The Americans had very qualified airplanes in the P-51 and P-47. He remembered that the P-47 could keep a higher speed...

Late on the night on 5 June 1944, John Marr and the men of Company G, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment boarded their...

William V. Cross [Annotator’s Note: with the 261st Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry Division] made passage to France on...

After going over the side, the boats would then form up waves of ten or twelve boats which rode around in circles until...

Curt Simmons was a member of the US Navy Armed Guard. He was born on a farm outside of Walters, Oklahoma and was a farm...

Wanda Damberg witnessed the science building at the university converted into a small clinic [Annotator’s Note: Damberg...

The following day [Annotator's Note: the day after they left Myitkyinā], Gabriel Kinney and the other remaining...

To Jack Brukman, the most memorable incident of World War 2 was when his hearing saved him from being injured by a bomb...

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