The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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When Calvin Barrick was going to submarine school in New London he signed up for the Navy's V-12 program which was...

Bettylu Dennis was born in April 1923 in Aurora, Indiana. Beginning in fifth grade, the family moved around several...

Bill Connelly was born in January 1925 in Philadelphia [Annotator's Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He had a half-...

Rivers Richardson King was born in October 1920 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Great Depression effected his family...

George Bernard Griffenhagen was in Plzen, Czechoslovakia on VE-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory in Europe Day], 8 May...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] was on Iwo Jima, Japan [Annotator's Note:...

Edwin McAuliffe was in Covington [Annotators Note: Covington, Louisiana] visiting friends. The news came across the...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The islands [Annotator...

James Thomas Womack's ship [Annotator's Note: USS St. Louis (CL-49)] was on patrol duty until they were able to get...

Firman Balza believes that the Japanese lost the war that first day, but it took the United States three and a half...

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