Search results

Map is loading...

Meade Willis first experienced battle at Saint-Die [Annotator's Note: Saint-Dié, France]. Willis was tasked with...

Near the end of the war, Arley Jett's unit [Annotator's Note: 262nd Signal Construction Company] was constructing...

When James B. Jones arrived at Fort Dix, New Jersey, he was assigned to the first black armored unit in the Army. The...

J.M. "Jimmy" Fried, Jr. was born in December 1919 and grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He had one older brother and...

Charles R. Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois in June 1924. His father was a window washer. His mother was a housewife...

When Harry Bell and the other prisoners arrived [Annotator's Note: at Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany] they were...

The day before William Albright's second mission, two B-17s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...

Arthur Albertson enlisted in the Air Force. He thought that was where he was going but five days after he signed up, he...

John Angier's 33rd mission was to Cologne, Germany which should have been a relatively short mission. They were hit...

To Dr. Roscoe Brown, strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they [Annotator's Note:...

Henry Burkle’s wife’s father was trying to raise chickens. One of the things Burkle did during the Depression [...

[Annotator’s Note: Birds chirping in the background is audible throughout this segment.] By October 1943, Edwin B....

Oral History