Search results

Map is loading...

For Bob Miksa [Annotator’s Note: Robert Miksa], D-Day was cold, damp and dark. H-hour was about 0630. Miksa and his...

Lloyd Geist's first mission was a sweep over France on 1 May 1944. The mission was uneventful. Geist recalled that he...

[Annotator's Note: There is some informal talking between the interviewer and interviewee at the beginning of the tape...

Edgar A. Grabhorn's group [Annotator's Note: 838th Bombardment Squadron, 487th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force]...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Albert Kitts what it was like to be in combat for the first time.] It was...

Jerome "Jerry" Riga was on a mission and saw a tank. As he went down to strafe it, Riga was hit by antiaircraft fire....

Vernon Grimes was born in May 1921 in Wichita [Annotator's Note: Wichita, Kansas]. He grew up with a sister in various...

Henry Feldman and the 8th Infantry Division [Annotator's Note: Feldman was a member of Cannon Company, 121st Infantry...

Melvin Linkous and the 2nd Infantry Division [Annotator's Note: Linkous was a member of Cannon Company, 38th Infantry...

Rip Rice remembers they were trying to get the Germans to give up. They were going to take a town on the night of 18...

Oscar Johnson was in Moosburg until General Patton came in and rescued them. It was quite a day. They could see shells...

Darold Rice remembers his first experience with combat as he and his crew were ordered to fire their .30 caliber into...

Oral History