Search results

Map is loading...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley why he chose to be a paratrooper.] Billingsley grew up a poor...

Meda Royce Hall [Annotator's Note: a US Navy bombsight instructor] had one pilot that gave him some trouble because he...

After completing the Navy basic training program, William Hill was enrolled in the University of Chicago [Annotator’s...

Donald Draxler was born in Glenwood City, Wisconsin in July 1923. His home town was near the "Twin Cities" [Annotator’s...

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

Norman Hatch remained on Iwo Jima for the first 18 days of the battle. He was flown off on D plus 18. Hatch flew off...

Vaughn Whitworth, like most segregated Marines, was in a Depot Company [Annotator's Note: 19th Depot Company, 7th Field...

Robert Powers returned to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], which had been built up since he had last...

Coming home was not a hard adjustment for Wendall Woodall. He and three others hired a guy to drive them to Kansas City...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

John Singlaub compared British to American parachutes. The British chute was different in many ways compared to the...

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

Oral History