European Theater of Operations (ETO)

The map only displays records that have geographic information. Switch to the grid view to see all records.

Map is loading...
Timeline is loading...

The timeline only displays records that have date information. Switch to the grid view to see all records.

After fighting through France and Luxembourg, Henry Feldman crossed the Rhine River on pontoon bridges at Cologne,...
Robert Nichols Cresswell left Remagen [Annotator’s Note: as a truck driver in the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion, he...
Robert G. Frey crossed the Rhine River in March [Annotator's Note: March 1945]. The Air Force had taken out most of the...
Edgar R. "Ross" Forman's unit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 319th Engineer Combat Battalion, 94th Infantry Division in...
Richard O. "Otto" Bertz when through the backstreets of Paris [Annotator's Note: Paris, France] on a truck. It was...
John Raaen saw a lot of smoke and heard a lot of noise from small arms fire from the right side. It was from WN70 which...
Hans Siverts' unit [Annotator's Note: 4th Convalescent Hospital] pretty much stayed together through the war. The last...
Paul Bosworth was sent to Flagstaff, Arizona for training. He started shooting up all of the beautiful cactuses there....
Darrell D. Gust's squadron [Annotator's Note: 358th Bombardment Squadron, 303rd Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] spent...
Milton Meulder explained how George C. Marshall, as an aide to General John J. Pershing during The Great War [Annotator...
Jerome Harold Black went to Allied Headquarters [Annotator's Note: Allied Force Headquarters, or AFHQ, in Caserta,...
Leroy "Lee" Solice decided to reenlist because he did not have other options, and he enjoyed his time in the Army. He...
Byron Othello Wilkins was in a provisional regiment that did not have enough guns to go around. They were issued 1917...
Robert Lewis Beilman enlisted into the Army with the hopes of being accepted into ASTP [Annotator's Note: Army...
When Eugene Yackel first heard they had dropped the bomb [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan...
Jack Weiss got off his ship [Annotator's Note: USS Columbia (CL-56)] and went on the South Dakota [Annotator's Note:...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks John T. "Jack" Race where he was when heard of the atomic bombs being dropped...
Dr. Stanley Jaffe does not recall hearing about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on...
The next shocking thing Vernon Breen remembers was that as the war was winding down, a lot of the Germans got out of...
Battle Malone Barksdale was married to his wife Grace for 66 years. They were married on 29 August 1939. After they...
When they were finished building their positions [Annotator's Note: along the beaches of Oahu] Clarence Herbert...
Henry Heim was a waist gunner for nine months in Hawaii. Then came Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack...
William Patrick Bonelli retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1960. On the night of 6 December 1941, Bonelli was in...
[Annotator’s Note: This interview is conducted in a question and answer style]. Russell Engel was a navigator in the...
Paul Lefever related in depth his mission to destroy a well protected V-2 rocket manufacturing site in Stettin [...
Lewis Thomas Easterling remarked that his fighter group [Annotator's Note: 365th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group...
Herbert W. Ridyard arrived at battalion headquarters prior to the advance on Sinz, Germany and was sent to find a...
Heading east and north into Germany, Gordon Higgins' 7th Army was flanked on either side by the French Army and Patton’...
[Annotator's Note: Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. served in the Army as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion,...
[Annotator's Note: Mark Gordon Hazard, jr. served in the Army as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion,...
While Norris Bucksell was in Naples, Italy, the churches that had not been bombed stayed open and he was able to attend...
Fred Amram paid a lot of attention to the war in Europe. His father listened to the news on the radio. As the war ended...
To Capers Andrews Holmes, Jr., Colonel Shower [Annotator's Note: US Army Air Forces Colonel Albert J. Shower] as an...
It was a month or more before Robert Heller became the pilot of a new crew. As new personnel came in, especially top...
Leslie Aigner and the other living passengers were ordered out of the cattle car [Annotator's Note: upon their arrival...

Pages