Search results

Map is loading...

Harold Ronson came home in the late summer of 1946. There was no big band or homecoming. His father had remarried the...

Raymond “Ray” Parrotta was born in Rochester, New York in May 1927. His father worked with a railroad company, and...

Russell Gackenbach had no idea where Tinian was located when he arrived there. He only knew it was close to Japan. At...

It took them 3 weeks to get to Australia in the convoy. When he came home it took 15 days.DeMers never had trouble with...

Bill Norberg [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6)] arrived in Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

From basic training, Aaron Baumgarten was sent to Great Falls, Montana which, at the time, was one of the headquarters...

James "Jim" Marshall and his unit [Annotator's Note: 499th Bombardment Group, 73rd Bombardment Wing, 20th Air Force]...

Whayland Harvel Greene [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division] was sent to...

Life was rather simple in Honolulu, Hawaii when Ray Emory got there in October 1941. He didn't drink in those days, so...

Burl Loving was ordered to report to the 317 [Annotator’s Note: USS YMS-317 minesweeper] which was a 130-foot-long,...

Earl Williams [Annotator's Note: with the 318th Port Company, 512th Port Battalion] had equipment that was used to pick...

When Keith Renstrom went to Iwo Jima he fought well because the excitement was not there. He functioned better as a...

Oral History