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Dubay, Henry The Bulge and War’s End
Henry Dubay and his C-47 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-47 Skytrain cargo aircraft] squadron [Annotator’s Note: 34th...
Sapp, Walter The Bulge Begins
Walter Sapp's company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division]...
Medway, Irwin The Bulge, Christmas, and Remagen Bridge
Irwin Medway was the runner for his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 414th Infantry Regiment, 104th...
Burchell, Raymond The Causeway
Raymond Burchell remembers seeing many young men in the German Army. Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf...
Spinato, Angelo The Day Before the Bulge
A lot of Angelo Joseph Spinato's time in Belgium [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 4th Platoon, 2nd battalion, 394th...
Abbenhaus, Gerald The End of the War and Occupation Duty
Gerald Abbenhaus says that the temperature and the mud were hard to fight as the Germans. In January 1945 they drove...
Urice, Joe The First Missions
Joel Urice was assigned to the 100th Bombardment Group [Annotator’s Note: 351st Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment...
Taylor, Claude The G.I. Bill and Service During the Korean War
Claude Taylor returned from China and disembarked in San Francisco. He returned to Louisiana where he was discharged...
Colbert, Hugh The Germans Attack
On the evening of 15 December 1944, the night before the Germans opened up the massive offensive referred to as the...
Nolan, Warren The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
Warren Nolan was aboard the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) in the Mariana Islands campaign [Annotator’s Note: June to November...
Caraway, John The Great Typhoon
There was ongoing correspondence with people back home, and John Caraway was able to keep abreast of what was going on...
Jostad, Glen The Heydekrug Run
Glen Jostad and other POWs were evacuated from their initial Stalag [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft VI in Heydekrug,...
Murphy, Alfred The Horrors of Flak
For Alfred Pierse Murphy, the most difficult part of succeeding in a bombing mission was the flak [Annotator's Note:...
Aalders, Johannes The Hunger Winter
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Johannes Aalders if life noticeably changed in his home when the Germans...
Henleben, Edwin The Invasion of Attu
Edwin Henlebin loaded onto a troop ship in San Francisco, California. He was issued Army clothing so that he couldn't...
Mayer, Philip The Invasion of Okinawa
Philip Mayer had been in the Pacific for 30 months and was in the assault wave on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...
Wells, Kenneth The Japanese Soldier and Okinawans
When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...
Tangradi, Richard The Last Mission
Richard Tangradi’s last mission was to Frankfurt [Annotator’s Note: Frankfurt, Germany]. They had to abort the mission...
Brewer, Chester The Last Missions
[Annotator's Note: Chester Brewer served in the USAAF as a tail gunner aboard Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers...
Schmitt, Warren The last months of the war
It was not quite dark when Warren Schmitt linked up with the engineers who had stopped him [Annotators Note: Warren...
Kinney, Gabriel The Leeches were Worse than the Japanese
Gabriel Kinney occasionally encountered Burmese civilians. For the most part the natives did not care who they were....
Smith, Jacques The Leyte Campaign
Jacques Brewster Smith says Elmer Fryar [Annotator's Note: phonetic spelling] was the company [Annotator's Note:...
Weinreich, Frieda The Lodz Ghetto
A couple of months after Lodz [Annotator's Note: Lodz, Ploand] was taken, all the Jews were put in the Lodz Ghetto....
Ram, Walter The Long March and Liberation
Walter Ram and the other POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] who could walk were marched out of Stalag XVII as the...
Blonder, Erwin The Lost Battalion and Going Home
Erwin Blonder remembers Marty Higgins [Annotator's Note: US Army Captain Martin J. Higgins] sending a sergeant and 35...
Murphy, Thomas The Maginot Line to Dachau
While moving through the Maginot Line a German soldier that had been bypassed took a shot at Thomas Murphy and hit his...
Meisel, Judith The Massacre
Judith Meisel saw someone in the ghetto [Annotator’s Note: Kovno ghetto] when she was 13 years of age. Her hair was...
Carter, Alex The Mediterranean to the Pacific
Alex Carter Sr. went to Southern France. They used 50-cycle electricity. Carter met a girl that spoke perfect English....
Duffy, Gowan The Morning of D-Day
Gowan Duffy remembers around five in the morning [Annotator’s Note: on their way to D-Day, the Allied invasion of...
Lewis, Claude The Mountain Division
Claude L. Lewis kissed the ground when he returned to the States [Annotator’s Note: United States]. He had enough...
Hill, Jennings The Murmansk Run
[Annotator's Note: Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. went to Oran, North Africa aboard the SS Buffalo Wallow in 1943.] They...
Wilson, Donald The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and Repair of Damages
Donald Wilson and the USS New Orleans (CA-32) engaged in combat with the Japanese fleet at Guadalcanal. During the late...
Foerster, David The Navy's First Hurricane Hunters
David Foerster was in the Azores when the war ended in Europe and Roosevelt [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano...
Hurley, Wallace The Outpost
Wallace Hurley faced a division of white camouflaged German soldiers who approached the American lines. The Americans...
Grahlfs, F. The Pacific
Despite being on another small ship, F. Lincoln Grahlfs was happy to be on an auxiliary ship and not a fighting vessel...
Lopez, Lionel The Philippines
Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Leyte, 17 October to 26 December...

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