Search results

Map is loading...

Bill Toledo saw his first combat on 1 November 1943. He landed on the island of Bougainville [Annotator's Note:...

Claude Shannahan joined the 3rd Marines [Annotator's Note: 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division]. He went with the...

Dale Smith was born in Ontario, California in March 1925. His great grandfather moved there in 1892 and was a founder....

William Cart was sent down to Gillespie [Annotator's Note: Gillespie Field, El Cajon, California], an outlying field...

William Lutz was not in a combat unit. They trained other units for amphibious landings. They went hunting and fishing...

William Beaman was 18 years old when he participated in his first submarine patrol in the Pacific, and he said he didn'...

There was a good 40 knot tail wind that was with them for several hours. When they got to the coast of Kyushu they were...

After the conclusion of World War 2, Alvin Sniff was sent back to New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana...

Mason Brownell Fitch flew over Kobe [Annotator's Note: Kobe, Japan] on his first mission over Japan [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: The interview opens with Thomas Francis Schicker already in conversation with the interviewer.] When...

Ervin Markwald served with the 77th Division [Annotator's Note: 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division] during...

One afternoon they were taken to a railroad station and put on a train but were not told where they were going. The...

Oral History