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Hirsekorn, Fred The M4 Sherman Tank
Fred Hirsekorn started out as a gunner on an M4 Sherman medium tank. He had made PFC by the end of basic training. He...
Burke, Murphy The Marshall Islands, Mariana Islands and the Mission After Darkness
The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...
Campbell, John The Merchant Marine and Admiral King
John Campbell says that President Truman [Annotator's Note: Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States] had...
Douglas, Walter The Merseburg Mission
Walter Douglas recalled a flight surgeon okayed one of his crewmen for a mission that he was not ready for. He also...
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...
Reynolds, Harley The night of June 6th and morning of June 7th 1944
Harley Reynolds, through subsequent research, was able to find out what the German half track was doing there. The half...
Raaen, John The Normandy D-Day Landing
John Raaen was captain of Headquarters Company, 5th Ranger Infantry Battalion at the time of D-Day on 6 June 1944 [...
Woolf, Basil The Normandy Invasion
Basil Woolf and his landing craft [Annotator's Note: LCH-269] beached on D-Day at Ouistrehan [Annotator's Note: Sword...
Biondo, Frank The Normandy Invasion
Frank Biondo was on deck crossing the English Channel for D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France...
Kaiser, Raymond The P-40
Raymond Kaiser always mocked the P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft] as low and slow but he...
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...
Thompson, Thomas The Philippines and Filipinos
Thomas D. Thompson boarded his Patrol Craft in Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] in the Lingayen Gulf [...
Cahoon, Robert The Philippines, War's End, and Going Home
Robert Cahoon briefly stayed on Biak in the Netherlands East Indies [Annotator's Note: in May 1944, Cahoon left New...
Kuwayama, Yeiichi "Kelly" The pressures of being a combat medic
Kelly Kuwayama landed in either May or June 1944 in Italy. They worked their way up the boot of Italy. When they were...
Garbo, William The Ridge above Ormoc
As William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry Regiment, moved out along a mountain trail from...
Reese, Lloyd The Run on Ploesti
Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...
Jaber, Anton The Saint-Lô Breakout
Anton Jaber was part of a force of three divisions, 3,000 planes, and 300 artillery units moving into combat. He could...
Dietrick, Alfred The Salerno Invasion
After finishing training [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
Whitten, Sumner The SB2U Vindicator and Flying Anti-Submarine Patrols From Midway
[Annotator's Note: Sumner Whitten served in the USMC as a pilot flying Vought SB2U-3 Vindicator dive bomber with Marine...
Dabney, William G. The scene on the beach
William Dabney and his unit dug into the sand as soon as they landed on the beach. They could not move inland until the...
Roberts, George The Second Schweinfurt Raid
When George Roberts flew to Schweinfurt they ran out of ammunition, except for in the radio room, on the way to the...
Ryan, John The Siegfried Line and Experiencing Enemy Fire
[Annotator's Note: The audio level of this interview is very low.] Before John Ryan reached the Siegfried Line, he came...
Swanson, Richard The Sinking of the SS Dorchester
[Annotator's Note: Interviewer asks Swanson about a downed army transport and a female off-camera reminds him of the...
Wiebe, Ted The Sinking of the USS Lexington (CV-2)
Ted Wiebe said that the pilots taught all the "middle men" how to fly the TBDs [Annotator's Note: Douglas TBD...
Harrell, Edgar The Sinking of USS Indianapolis (CA-35)
Edgar Harrell was born in October 1924 in Cadiz, Kentucky. He was 18 when he joined the United States Marine Corps in...
Tarrant, Eugene The Slot, Coral Sea, Midway and Tarawa
[Annotator's Note: Eugene Tarrant served in the Navy as a captain’s mess attendant aboard the USS San Francisco (CA38...
Price, John The Tank Destroyers
John H. Price, Jr.'s company [Annotator's Note: Company B, 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion] was comprised of three...
Morehead, James B. The Thirst for Blood and Evacuating Java
James Morehead's first combat action was an intercept of bombers determined to destroy the 19th Bomb Group's [Annotator...
Galbraith, Wendell The Toughest Missions
The target for Wendell Galbraith's second mission [Annotator's Note: with the 782nd Bombardment Squadron, 465th...
Trappey, Randolph The Trappey Family's War Production
The war required his father's canning business to step up production, and Randolph Trappey's help was enlisted in the...
Porche, Albert The Tuskegee Airmen
Albert Porche served in Italy with the 99th Fighter Squadron. The 99th was issued light training aircraft after months...
Tacket, Henry The USS Heerman (DD-532) in the Battle off Samar
Henry A. Tacket was a Radioman 1st Class aboard the USS Heermann (DD-532). He was a 1st Class Petty Officer. He would...
Lynch, James The USS Snook (SS-279)
James Paul Lynch went out to sea as officer of the deck the first time [Annotator's Note: on the USS Snook (SS-279) on...
Guidry, Edmond The USS Wisconsin (BB-64)
Edmond Guidry came back [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] to the Philadelphia Navy Yard [Annotator's...
Schaller, Henry The War Ends
Henry Schaller's bomber [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 FLying Fortress heavy bomber] flew at 23,000 feet. It was 33...

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