Search results

Map is loading...

Victor K. Carman got to Japan on 1 August 1945. The bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and...

[Annotator’s Note: There is someone in the background that is assisting the interviewee in answering the interviewer’s...

When the Japanese came ashore they had battleships, planes, and superior equipment. Church and his men were using .30...

Roger Shaw arrived in Bahia, Brazil aboard the SS George Gayle. He had met some associates previously in Bahia, but he...

John Robert Votrobeck Jr. was born in July 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska. He went to school in Omaha and graduated high...

David Heath arrived at Tulagi, the capital island of the Solomon Islands. Not long after arriving, shells started...

Richard Baile was given a rigid physical which was going well until they gave him the color blind test again. This time...

Sergeant Carter [Annotator's Note: UNited States Marine Corps Sergeant James "Rudy" Carter] was a stickler for the...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was looking forward to seeing the enemy. The Marines were under the Navy. After training, they...

Carroll George was on a transport ship that made tremendous voyages, two to the Far East and one to the Mediterranean,...

[Annotator's Note: Paul Dietzel served in the USAAF as a copilot on Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bombers in the...

Windom Joseph Burton went into Navy boot camp in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia] and was then sent for...

Oral History