The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Being a bush pilot in Alaska was a fun experience for Geraldine Nyman. One of their employees crashed a plane in the...

Edward LaPorta was a halftrack driver during his first battle. He remembers that they had nothing to fight with except...

Harley Reynolds went through the town of Troina but did not fight there. Company F ran into most of the resistance...

Jerry Yellin was born on February 15th, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Hillside High School in June of...

Rankin did not shoot down Gunther Rall [Annotator's Note: Luftwaffe/West German Air Force Ace Lt. Gen. Gunther Rall]...

Frank Pomroy arrived on Guadalcanal from New Caledonia after being left aboard the troopship George F. Elliot [...

Erwin Blonder was sent to a hospital in Illinois for his trench foot. He remembers another incident regarding his...

Joseph Hochadel served in the 34th Infantry Division, 133rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion as a combat medic. He was...

Stanley Harvey Bender wrote home whenever he got the chance. He enjoyed getting mail, but some of the men got bad mail...

The prisoners had their own doctors they had to rely on. They had a Japanese doctor assigned to them but he was not 1...

Oral History