Search results

Map is loading...

When they left the ground they were going a little under 80 miles per hour. The ship was making about 20 knots and...

Carroll George enlisted in the Coast Guard because it is always looking out for the welfare of others. It saves lives...

Earl Angel was born in August 1923 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He had ten siblings, four sisters and six brothers. His...

Woody Woodall [Annotator's Note: Wendall Woodall] was born in March 1925 in Webster City, Iowa. They were so poor that...

James Shelton Scales was the battalion executive officer of the 1st Battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 23...

Jack Pierce had a good job offer on the West Coast. He tried to get discharged there, but they would not do it. He...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was in engineering school when the Army decided to cancel the program. He was sent to...

Joseph LaNier exited San Francisco toward Pearl Harbor. Everything that LaNier saw when he went into the Navy was new...

At 19 Thatcher finished high school and enlisted in the US Army Air Corps on December 3rd, 1940. Thatcher was sworn in...

Adolfo V. Celaya reached Iwo Jima [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)]. The ship bombarded the...

Lionel Lopez would have followed his captain anywhere. He was half-Indian. He was a fighting man. Lopez carried an M1 [...

Howard Warren Stokes is thankful for being alive and for the government paying for his education. He is also happy...

Oral History