The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Yukio Kawamoto was a precious child for his parents. The draft got him and he went to war. Kawamoto worked for the...

William Pena’s two sergeants were taken from him after one night and were transferred so he was given a new sergeant...

Richard Candelaria waited until dark then took off. He was armed with a .45 pistol that he tied around his neck to keep...

Hanna was the chief clerk for group engineering [Annotators Note: at Clark Field in the Philippines in 1941]. His boss...

Joseph Barger was born in Dayton, Tennessee in 1925, and grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He took a bus to school...

They were told that they had to march about 60 miles [Annotators Note: as American prisoners of war in Poland]. Corbin...

The Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] was gone when Feightner arrived at Pearl Harbor so he went down...

Lieutenant John Marr was involved in the mission planning meeting between Lieutenant Colonel Charles J. Timmes [...

Kaare Allan Johnson's unit [Annotator's Note: 596th Parachute Combat Engineer Company, 517th Parachute Infantry...

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