Search results

Map is loading...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was born in June 1924 in Schenectady, New York. He was a senior in high school and had just...

[Annotator's Note: The interview begins with Norman Hatch in conversation with the interviewer.] Hatch used to show...

The boats were scattered around little islands, each with a pier, and Richard McEwen said the sailors ate their meals...

Victor K. Carman was born in April 1927 in Woodmere, New York on Long Island. His parents divorced when he was three...

Willard Ashford’s most memorable experience of the was was driving an 18-wheeler to Admiral Nimitz’s [Annotator's Note...

Wim de Jonge's Japanese captors disrespected the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. Prisoners would be beaten...

The most memorable experience of World War 2 for Carroll George was the fountain of black crude oil in the crew's...

During his interrogation, Fiske Hanley was asked some military questions, but the Japanese interest centered mostly on...

Ralph Weymouth graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1938. He was 12 years and old living in northwest Seattle in 1929...

Joseph Burrell could see all of the damage from Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] only had black sand in the southern part of the island. Iwo Jima means...

Leisey believes that the Marine Corps teaches one to be a giver as well. He sometimes wakes up in the middle of the...

Oral History