The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Charles Fitts, Jr. was born in December 1924 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He lived there until he was about four years old....

The men learned to pack parachutes and jump from a tower. They had to pack the first 10 parachutes they would use at...

They [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] retreated about eight or ten miles...

After coming back to the United States Raymond Wells took a train to meet his wife in Aberdeen, North Dakota. On the...

George Sakato was born in Colton, California at a Union Pacific and Southern Pacific hub for the Railroad company. His...

Samuel W. Smith remembers his flight engineer telling him that he dropped a screwdriver in the oil chamber. The B-24 [...

Gowan Duffy remembers the German planes would start at one end of the beach strafing and go on to the other end. [...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...

Lawrence Johnston was already a junior by the time he got to Berkeley. One of his physics professors was Louis Alvarez...

George Morgan left Fort Pierce after a month and a half along with two dozen other men. [Annotator’s Note: Fort...

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