The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Giles Bacon has seen some of the movies made about Pearl Harbor in recent years. He thinks the most accurate is Tora!...

When Galloway was captured and was allowed to talk to his men, he explained to them why he was in the house and why...

Hairston operated a Howitzer during the war. He notes that artillery is never really precise. There were a lot of...

[Annotator's Note: Yukio Kawamoto served in the Army as a Japanese interpreter with the 37th Infantry Division in the...

McClellan did not keep in touch with any of the men he served with after the war. He never attended any reunions. He...

Sumner Whitten received orders to return to Ewa [Annotator's Note: following the Battle of Midway]. He got aboard a B-...

John Baldori appreciates how people treat him because he is a war veteran. His most memorable experience was returning...

They missed the Battle of the Coral Sea. They were told that the Lexington was sunk and the Yorktown was damaged....

Wicker was told to go relieve the man on the gate but he refused because he knew he had more points than any man over...

Lieutenant John Marr crossed the bridge at La Fiere with a group of about 75 men from Company G, 507th Parachute...

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