The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Stanley Harvey Bender and his unit [Annotator’s Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine...

The prisoners would steal stuff whenever they could. Sometimes the men would get searched. Everyone would throw their...

Eva Schloss's family's hiding was different. They didn't have an office in Amsterdam that depended on Christian people...

William Curtis departs for New York and heads for Manhattan Beach Training Station. Learned the alphabet in Morse Code...

John Raaen returned to the United States for recovery in early February [Annotator’s Note: February 1945] after being...

Charles Womack and every other Marine on the island were fully aware that they were headed for Japan after the fighting...

[Annotator's Note: George Peto served in the US Marine Corps in a machine gun section in 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine...

Rosemary Elfer was born in Grand Bay, Alabama in 1924 even though all of her ancestors were born in Louisiana....

Bruno S. Rinas believes some of his unit [Annotator's Note: 3rd Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group] may have been on...

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