Search results

Map is loading...

The first ship Curt Simmons served aboard was the old Panamanian flagged ship El Murante [Annotator's Note: unsure of...

After he completed his training, Paul Rothenheber was assigned to the USS Monticello (APA-61), a troop transport ship....

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

Joseph Hartmann remembers that by 6:30 [Annotator's Note: on the morning of D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy,...

William Leo Spaetgens was changed by World War 2. He hated school with a passion. After making it to the tenth grade,...

For Robert Fitz, it was an honor to serve three years in combat areas, and is grateful that he lived through it. He...

Anthony Bianconi feels strongly that World War 2 should be taught to youngsters today. There are guys under white...

Alois Kopp was in Pocatello, Idaho in the Civilian Conservation Camp when the Navy recruited him. He was sent to San...

Charlie Lomax [Annotator's Note: a Naval officer in a special communications task force in the Naval Amphibious Forces...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was aboard USS LST-502 for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944.] What...

Robert Martin went to upholstery school with the GI Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment...

Herbert Fontenot found a sweetheart after his discharge from the Navy. She was similar in background to him. They fell...

Oral History