Search results

Map is loading...

Robert Taylor slept in a hammock with netting for mosquitoes. They had tents. The chaplain was like the Red Cross guru...

After being discharged from service in World War 2, James D. Comeaux adjusted easily to civilian life and attended...

Patrick Zilliacus was born in May 1926 in Helsinki, Finland. Life growing up was fantastic. His parents divorced when...

Hugh Wingo attended boot camp for eight weeks. They got their first liberty [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence...

Louis Conter arrived in San Francisco after his voyage from Hawaii. He took a train trip to Pensacola, Florida during...

[Annotator's Notes: There is some chit chat between the interviewer and interviewee before the interview begins.]...

News that the war had ended seemed to daze Randall Edwards and his fellow prisoners of war initially. Once they got...

James William Grimes was born in November 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. Everything was okay during the 1920s, but the 1930s...

Stanley John Niec decided not to stay in the Navy after the war. He used the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill...

Jean D. "JD" Johnson volunteered for service with the Navy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator...

Richard Thelen remembered that it was too hot to sleep below deck, so he began to sleep topside. One night he told his...

The planes all arrived about the same time. They then steamed north.The men knew that the Japanese had sent an armada...

Oral History