The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Clayton Kelly Gross does not recall if the Messerschmitt he shot down off of the B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17...

Billow was born in Millersburg, Pennsylvania. Growing up during the depression was rough, they did not have much. His...

[Annotator's Note: Edgar Cole served in the US Marine Corps as a communications specialist in Headquarters, 52nd...

During World War II it was the Japanese that occupied the Aleutian Islands, part of the United States. The attitude was...

Fred Hirsekorn was drafted in early 1943. After induction at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas he was sent to Camp Campbell,...

Louis Zamperini qualified for the 1936 Olympics and went to New York to compete with Don Lash [Annotator's Note: Donald...

Robert Kean was born in August 1922 in Long Island [Annotator’s Note: Long Island, New York]. He grew up in New York...

James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...

During one of his breaks in Sicily, Frank Mancuso wrote a letter that was never answered. When he came back to the...

On the mission to Blechhammer one of Rackley's partner's lost an engine. He saw the cowling fly off of the engine. His...

Oral History