Search results

Map is loading...

[Annotator’s Note: The sound is choppy in this segment.] When Edwin Sedran landed on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: Tinian,...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

James Bollich was only able to get water from one place [Annotator's Note: in the Camp O’Donnell prisoner of war camp...

Henry Ratcliff almost arrived home after his outfit did [Annotator's Note: 860th Aviation Engineer Battalion, 5th Air...

Theodore Theodore's most memorable event of the war was being jumped by fighters while leaving Balikpapan [Annotator's...

Malcolm Ernest was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in June 1916. He was at Nichols Field in Manila [Annotator's Note:...

Walter Atwood took a Liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] home. One night, the...

Russell Gackenbach had no idea where Tinian was located when he arrived there. He only knew it was close to Japan. At...

William Stewart wore fatigues with big pockets. He would keep pocketbooks and would read while he waited in lines. He...

Rex James Bates was born in November 1923 in Seattle, Washington. His father served as a drummer in the Navy during...

Clarence Becker was based at Harmon Field, also called Depot Field [Annotator's Note: now Harmon Air Force Base on Guam...

While working on a road, Ben Steele would see men covered with mosquitos. They did not have mosquito nets to sleep with...

Oral History