Search results

Map is loading...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Thornhill served in the Navy as a gunner's mate aboard the USS Daly (DD-519) and was a gun...

Martin Sherbecoe recalled a couple of incidents from PT boat [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat] school. One...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Peleliu.] Normally, the...

Ben Ray Bost had a new captain come aboard [Annotator's Note: the USS LSM-316] after Captain Fritsch [Annotator's Note...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman was...

Jules Desloge Brown was born in 1923 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. His father was a colonel in the cavalry of the Army....

Donald Herbert Shown and the Indianapolis [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] were in the Aleutians at the...

James Francis McCorriston was born in Trenton, New Jersey, in February 1925, but grew up in Florence, New Jersey....

Harold Buell wanted to hit a major enemy warship but seemed to never have the opportunity. He finally had his chance...

Murphy Burke served in World War 2 because he thought it was the thing an American should do. He feels his experience...

Oral History