The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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George Peto has doubts about the mental toughness of today's generation and its ability to wage a war as deadly and...

Rosemary Elfer does not recall having any real issues while she was in the service. One issue that occurred at the end...

Frank Maresca started his basic training in January [Annotator's Note: January 1944]. He was first sent to Fort Dix for...

When he deployed, Ubert Labat was among 14,000 troops on the Queen Mary [Annotator's Note: RMS Queen Mary], including a...

Bruno S. Rinas arrived in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], but was not allowed to go home....

Hans Courant was assigned to a group working on electronics at Los Alamos. He worked in that capacity for the next two...

Clarence Becker was promoted to G-3, Operations Officer, in January 1945. He had been a Flight Commander until that...

The 3rd Marine Division was loaded up and brought to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan on 22 February 1945...

One day, Edward Zarger's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry...

Calvin Moore used his G.I. Bill to buy a house and go to school. The G.I. Bill was important to post World War 2...

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