The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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[Annotators Note: Lou Brissie served in the army as an infantryman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 351st Infantry Regiment...

The Thresher [Annotator's Note: USS Thresher (SS-200)] had torpedo problems on most of her runs. Billy Grieves kept an...

After separating Kalil from the rest of the platoon after his capture, the Germans loaded Kalil on a truck and took him...

Darold Rice stated “I grew up,” when asked by the interviewer how the war changed his life. He came back with a renewed...

Zawada was trying to figure out what he was going to do [Annotator's Note: during the Hammelburg raid as a member of...

Richard Ford waited about three months for a boat back to the United States. Germans were sinking boats in the Gulf of...

Monty Joe Boitnott killed groups of men that were mostly Italian with his machinegun at Sened. He also killed Frenchmen...

Before they [Annotator's Note: Masaji Inoshita and his fellow interpreter, Sergeant Edwin Sasaki] got to their final...

Robert Shoens felt that the flak was limited on that mission [Annotators Note: the 6 March 1944 mission to Berlin]. It...

[Annotator's Note: Robert L. Williams is a World War 2 veteran of the 101st Airborne Division and jumped into Normandy...

Oral History