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.

James Albert Kitts landed in France [Annotator's Note: on 13 December 1944] and it was not cold, just muddy. It got...
Before he got to Saint-Lo [Annotator's Note: Battle of Saint-Lô, 7 to 19 July 1944; Saint-Lô, France], Frank Forcinella...
Vernon Leo Tyler [Annotator's Note: in the 100th Infantry Division] had to climb ropes to get on the troopships. He...
Arnold Horn and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 45th Infantry Division] moved about 20 miles a day once they were in France...
[Annotator's Note: Vernon Squire was in the 821st Tank Destroyer Battalion, 29th Infantry Division and helped take the...
As soon as William "Bill" Parker returned to the 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, he was put on patrol...
Frank Forcinella crossed into Germany [Annotator's Note: in early February 1945] and came upon the Siegfried Line [...
John Singlaub took his group of resistance fighters just south of the Loire River. A local mayor organized an...
[Annotators Note: Franklin Denius was an artillery forward observer in Battery C, 230th Field Artillery Battalion, 30th...
Paul Hilton Madden Jr. was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 379th Infantry Regiment, 95th Infantry Division as a...
One night the battalion [Annotator's Note: 463rd Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, 101st Airborne Division] was...
Lester Shapiro's experience before getting to Burma [Annotator's Note: present day Myanmar], was guarding some oil...
Vernon Alexander only received one fresh water shower during his deployment voyage to Europe. Salt water showers were...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Payne about friction between the officers of his 463rd Parachute Field...
Gowan Duffy does not think he came across any man in shock. Some of the men in his unit were dragging because of...
Wallace Hurley recounts the story of his admired company commander who was killed while capturing two Germans. The...
[Annotator's Note: This clip starts with James Billingsley midsentence in a new story.] Billingsley says that after the...
James Billingsley encountered quite a bit of Japanese resistance going up Highway 17 [Annotator's Note: now Emilio...
Ever since Belisario de Jesus "Bel" Flores was 12 years old, he was aware of the conflict [Annotator's Note: in Europe...
Otis Gatewood's unit [Annotator's Note: Battery C, 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion, 9th Armored Division] came...
Sullivan Tindal developed a relationship with a family that hosted him while in boot camp in the South [Annotator's...
Paul Arst adjusted well to civilian life. He met his wife in 1958 while he was attending a meeting in Alabama. A friend...
[Annotators Note: Robert Walter was a platoon sergeant in Company L, 3rd Battalion, 393rd Infantry Regiment, 99th...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip Irwin Medway looks at photographs, mostly off-camera, and talks about the men...
One of Ralph F. Lafferty's friends had been a ski instructor before the war. He was a wonderful skier, and they became...
George Miles [Annotator's Note: serving with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] met Polette...
There was a barber in Ivan Van der Pool's company [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment,...
[Annotator’s Note: The video glitches and the video and sound are sometimes not synchronized throughout the segment.]...
After the war, Harry Bell kept up with several guys he served with but those contacts slowly faded away except for his...
Since they had bonded together in a single place at a single airfield in Germany, Robert Payne and friends continued...
Carl Peterson doesn't know how the war changed him. He has his own views on how things should be. His wife gets on him...
Donald Louis Duffy was born in February 1924 and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. His father worked in a factory until he...

Pages