The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Lyle Bouck was the youngest graduate in his class. He was 18 or 19 years old and the average age of the OCS [Annotator'...

Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression...

[Annotator's Note: Charles Radford served in the Army as an infantryman in Company I, 3rd Battalion, 133rd Infantry...

Donald (Don) Malarkey tried to get into the Marine Corps right after the attack on Pearl Harbor but was turned down...

After her time in the WAVES [Annotator's Note: Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; United States Naval...

They [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] started on their way to Paris but...

A year after Raymond Wells was shipped to Okinawa Joyce joined him there. At the time there was very little in terms of...

Samuel W. Smith went to the landing strip right outside of England to prepare to leave for the United States. The next...

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