Search results

Map is loading...

Carolyn Bridgforth was going to be a dietician. There were very few jobs available to women. She did not finish her...

In the first days of June 1944, W. P. “Bill” Allen assigned to the USS LST-523 [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship, Tank]...

Norris Waddill drove off the barge at Normandy and had a dry landing. He saw dead Seabees [Annotator's Note: members of...

When orders came about a month after D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944],...

William C. Smith, Junior [Annotator's Note: a forward observer with the 1st Infantry Division] was on the beach [...

Roy Creek commanded two infantry companies. He commanded E Company, 25th Infantry Regiment [Annotator's Note: Company E...

Harold Beal remembers the paratroopers could not do much for them on the beach, but by the end of the day, they were up...

Philip Schultz went through basic training like any other new recruit. Subsequently, he sailed to England and was there...

Don Bowling trained with rifles, machine guns, and mortars. He landed on Omaha [Annotator's Note: Omaha Beach, Normandy...

Harold Baumgarten continues his description of American firepower [Annotator's Note: during the D-Day invasion of...

James Nannini participated in the Normandy Invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

Johnnie A. Jones Senior was made a warrant officer [Annotator's Note: officers above non-commissioned officers,...

Oral History