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[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Richard Yeagely what his most memorable experience of World War 2 is.] There...

Prior to jumping on D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], some of the fellas...

Only one of Robert Huber's friends was wounded during the war. He did not know the sergeant who was killed. The one who...

It only took four days for the ship to cross the Atlantic. They landed in Boston and, after going ashore, Charles Fitts...

Abe Milkis took a train home from New York. [Annotator’s Note: he arrived in New York after he returned from Europe...

Norris Bucksell was born in August 1921 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He attended Valena C. Jones Elementary School. He...

Walter Sapp went to Camp Walter, Texas for basic training. He did not want to be drafted and did not want to go into...

Edward J. Cook was transferred to a Red Cross hospital ship somewhere in France. His arm was amputated because shrapnel...

Bernard Ellenberg's [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division as a typist for the Stars and Stripes,...

Vernon Breen somehow became the bugler for his company [Annotator's Note: Breen was a member of the Intelligence and...

Fred Whitaker remembers some soldiers were decapitated because the Germans would put wires across the roads. They...

Oral History