Search results

Map is loading...

As Peter Paret's battalion [Annotator's Note: 1st Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division] moved down...

Michael Maziarczyk was ready to return home. It took them 12 hours to get from Hawaii to San Francisco [Annotator’s...

Hilar Moore sailed from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Kenneth Beard's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being a switchboard operator. He chose to serve because he...

William Lutz liked boot camp because he got a rifle. He liked the firing range. He became a gunner after basic training...

Donald Hoff's plane was not bothered [Annotator's Note: by Japanese fighters during the second strike of the Battle of...

Melvin C. Whitman did his basic training in San Diego [Annotator's Note: Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in San...

Jack Skaggs saw several POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] accidentally killed by the electrical wire surrounding...

Richard Miralles got word on his 18th birthday that they were going home. He went on liberty [Annotator's Note: an...

It gives Quintana a good feeling to be able to say that he was a Marine Raider. He felt that the Raiders did not feel...

Edward Bale spent the first night on Tarawa sleeping next to a disabled LVT [Annotator's Note: Landing Vehicle, Tracked...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was born in Neenah, Wisconsin in December 1923. He grew up with three brothers. Babbits'...

Oral History