The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Franklin Denius had taken artillery training in the ROTC at the Citadel and wanted to be in the artillery. He got his...

Freddie Ohr had an aerial photographer in his group who had just come out of the photography school in Denver. He asked...

When Donald Hoff's plane went into its dive, it did not last long. At 250 miles per hour the dive goes by quick. When...

Roy Boreen spent a year and a half as part of the USS Oklahoma's (BB-37) 3rd Division Deck Force. Every Friday was...

Dupuy flew air support for the Marines who were landing on Tinian [Annotators Note: July 1944]. The invasion took...

Byron Othello Wilkins arrived back at Camp Maxey in Texas and saw a group of LSU men at the camp with a band to play...

James Livaudais flew from England to Holland on 17 September 1944. Flying at about 500 feet at 150 miles per hour,...

Harold Horseman was the historian for the Guadalcanal veterans. Horseman wrote about the same area and about the same...

Myron J. Carraway served in Hawaii until June 1942. He then sailed to the Aleutian Islands based out of Kodiak [...

Paul Sartori Jr. was a boatsman’s mate second class. He did maintenance work and was a gunner. They were on the ship...

[Annotators Note: Barbara Pathe worked for the American Red Cross (ARC) on a Red Cross Clubmobile attached to various...

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