The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...

Theodore Finkbeiner and the paratroopers he was with started heading toward Gela. Whenever they heard shooting they...

Connick recalls having great respect for the Marines they picked up at Iwo Jima. He watched them fight, seeing the...

In May 1943, Earl Ervin Clark and the 87th Mountain Infantry [Annotator's Note: 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th...

Norman Ikari’s request for a transfer to the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was granted, but he was busted down from...

The Germans issued blankets to the POWs that were threadbare and worthless. Loevsky states that when the Germans knew...

Edward Tipper arrived at Crile General Hospital in Cleveland after his flight from a hospital in England. [Annotator’s...

Cleston Stell was on the Enns River in Austria when Hitler killed himself and the war ended. He did not believe the...

One day, Jack Yusen heard his name called and he was ordered to report to the USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413). Yusen and...

After Orville Bethard was discharged he used his GI Bill benefits to take classes at Compton Junior College for a...

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