Search results

Map is loading...

Lloyd Reese trained to be a bombardier on the AT-11 [Annotator’s Note: Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan] and then the B-24 [...

Christa Schneider was born in April 1940 in Breslau, Silesia, the younger of the two daughters in her family. Her...

Wilford E. Hastings was born in Braggadocio, Missouri in July 1923. He grew up in the area. Family life was tough for...

Walter Rozett had a very good relationship with the enlisted men [Annotator's Note: on his bomber crew] and saw several...

From Nebraska they flew to Bangor, Maine. There were 36 planes that flew out of Maine to go overseas. They were...

Philip Grass sailed on a new vessel called the Sea Snipe. The ship was made in Seattle [Annotator’s Note: Seattle,...

Frank Buschmeier recalls that the March 6th Berlin raid was terrible. The flak was noted for its intensity on that raid...

Joseph Dean Reilly was part of the first replacements to join the 501st [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 3rd Battalion...

In 1943, William White Brainard joined the Army Air Corps because he lived close to Morrison Field [Annotator’s Note:...

John Howland became part of the Pathfinder force of the Eighth Air Force. They were accumulated in small squadrons...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Johannes Aalders about the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden,...

Paul Baughman was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania in May 1920. He grew up there on a big farm until he was 15 years...

Oral History