Search results

Map is loading...

Harry Walker Wellford was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 6 August 1924. He spent his entire life there except for his...

Robert Frederick Reed was stationed at Kagman Point while on Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands...

Gerald Francis "Jerry" Coleman [Annotator's Note: a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Marine Scout-Bomber...

James Bowie joined the Marine Corps. He only knew what he saw in the newsreels. He had an uncle who served in the Navy...

The 2nd plane [Annotators Note: the 2nd kamikaze on 10 May 1945] that hit them hit the after engine room. He came in...

Charles Struble had basic training at Amarillo, Texas. Aircraft maintenance instructions were also provided there. Next...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks if Clarence Becker had received word that flights were not supposed to go out...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

Rob Roy Ratliff was assigned to the communications section of Headquarters, 5th Marine Division. At the time, the 5th...

Richard Hebert, Sr.’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was during basic training. One of the trainees suffered...

Oral History