The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole had been drafted into the US Marine Corps and was on his way to Camp Lejeune, North...

The Nazis were on their march throughout Europe but his family kept their trip [Annotators Note: their immigration to...

James Goodrich was taken from Iwo Jima to a hospital on Guam. He was on Guam for about 12 or 13 days before being...

After moving inland following the Normandy invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...

[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a rifleman and radio operator in Company B, 1st Marine Raider...

Warren Schmitt was always interested in cameras. He liberated two pretty nice cameras in Germany and took up...

For the first several months they were flying out of Bodney, they did not live on base. They lived in a hotel and were...

Originally, when Frank Mancuso entered the army he was a Catholic. This changed when the Pope said they could not bomb...

On trip after the winter weather started to move in, they were briefed to a 50 knot head wind. They were in formation....

Rosamund Naylor wanted to stay home after her service. She went back to school under the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note:...

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