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By the time he went overseas, Julian Trist Bringier McConnell did not have heavy ammunition. He spent most of his time...

James did not realize that he was shot right away. He knew he was hit but the pain did not register. He went down below...

Surviving a Storm

Clint Quirk tried to get into the Navy, but he needed seaman papers. The longshoremen told him to go to the Army...

Harold Ward has never seen any history on what happened to the Helena [Annotators Note: USS Helena (CL-50)], the...

On the day American forces arrived [Annotator's Note: 3 February 1945 at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp, or, Manila...

Robert L. Donovan landed in Leyte [Annotator’s Note: Leyte, the Philippines] on 20 October [Annotator’s Note: 20...

When he returned to the United States, William Goldsborough was mustered out of Fort Meade [Annotator's Note: Fort...

Jacob Velfling, Jr. was born in Cadillac, Michigan in May 1926. Velfling played many sports in high school and had a...

[Annotator's Note: John Stiles went to Marine Corps boot camp training in San Diego, California.] They were given...

After being wounded, Richard Keller was evacuated to a field hospital [Annotator's Note: Keller was shot by a sniper...

Fulton Taylor used the GI Bill to help pay his tuition for college. He graduated from Louisiana State University in...

Oral History