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Edward Shames was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1922. He can recall the Great Depression, but it wasn't as severe in his...

On 8 April [Annotator's Note: 8 April 1944] they got a red flag in the area and they knew they were getting ready to go...

Sherman [Annotator's Note: US M4 "Sherman" medium tank] tanks make a lot of noise but Tiger [Annotator's Note: German...

In Joe Pigott's opinion, General Smith [Annotator's Note: US Army General Walter Bedell Smith] was "one of the best";...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer re-starts the oral history at this point and asks the same questions as in the...

On 17 July 1944 Sidney LaPook and the 193rd Field Artillery Group left Kington for Southampton. On 21 July they took a...

When the guys heard Axis Sally playing over loud speakers they laughed. They knew it was just propaganda. The Germans...

Joe Pigott joined the Army because the Navy and the Marines did not appeal to him. At the time, the Air Corps was part...

Before Arthur Seltzer was drafted into the Army, he had received multiple letters of commendation from the Army Signal...

On days that Paul Lefever didn't fly, he would watch other squadrons take off, identify planes by their numbers, and...

Richard Yeagely was born in November 1925 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He had one brother who was in the Navy. His mother...

Stanley Berman was born in September 1920 in Columbus, Ohio, moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and finally to Cincinnati [...

Oral History