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When Francis Resta’s platoon [Annotator's Note: Resta served in the weapons platoon of Company B, 1st Battalion, 407th...

Hillman James Prestridge got married and tried to find a job [Annotator's Note: after being discharged from the Army in...

Harry Bell ended up in IX-B [Annotator's Note: Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany]. In the camp was a man who Bell...

Walter Ehlers rejoined his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry...

The Germans had a lot of horsedrawn equipment. Their tanks were good but they were too well engineered. To get a German...

James Jordan was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in February 1927. He went to a military academy at 15. He had no...

Edward J. Manzi was drafted into the Army and sent to Camp Haan, California for basic training. He quickly learned to...

When Bill Schwartz returned home from his service in Europe, he was amazed to see how old his parents were. He later...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer re-starts the oral history at this point and asks the same questions as in the...

R.M. Wilkes was born in July 1923 in Georgia. His father was a pharmacist in the small town of Cobbville [Annotator's...

Leo Terrebonne went to work in 1942 for Higgins Industries at the Industrial Canal Plant. He was out of school, and...

Susumas Ito recalled jumping from tree to tree and releasing counter fire. One of the captains stepped on a land mind...

Oral History