The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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The first thing that happened to Harry McKnight when he reached boot camp was a haircut. He was then given a rifle and...

What Vernon Tweedt saw of the Italian people was that they were willing to be helpful if necessary, but they pretty...

Kenneth Barnette was wounded in Europe only after a month of being in combat. He was sent to Southampton, England to...

Walter Barnes and the other American forces in the area moved both during the day and at night. They were constantly...

When Alexander Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when his parachute opened up. He...

Brooks and the other sailor were loaded into the truck and taken to a small camp with other POWs. In the area were some...

When Edward LaPorta was in training all of the guys in the outfit were very good friends. After going through their...

Harley Reynolds and his unit disembarked from Sicily near the beach where they landed. There was a convoy on the way...

In January 1944, Yellin was sent to Thunderbird Field in Arizona. That was where he took his primary training. He was...

Rankin left McChord Field on 14 July 1942 and arrived in Santa Ana, California in 15 July 1942 for preflight training....

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