Search results

Map is loading...

In the early part of 1943, Robert H. "Bob" Harris volunteered for overseas duty. In June he was finally shipped out....

Lawrence Eustis did not use the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944,...

Samuel Spector joined the United States Army Air Forces as a pilot trainee but he did not pass the advanced pilot...

Sandford Robert Willford [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 9th Fighter Squadron, 49th Fighter Group, 5th Air...

William Disanza was in the Boy Scouts as a kid but it did not prepare him for Burma. Disanza had originally joined the...

After William J. Pribyl inventoried the pipeline, it was dismantled and cut up for scrap, under the Army's conditions...

Lester Shapiro was born in October 1921 in Rochester, New York. He went as a walk-on for a scholarship at the...

In this clip, Richard Notebaert talks about the missions he flew over the bigger cities in Italy, attacking an airfield...

Cleveland Peterson heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor after boarding a ship in San Francisco, California...

Herbert Saylor was drafted shortly after graduating from high school. His father and sister brought Saylor to the train...

McNeil reported to Fort Belvoir [Annotator's Note: Fort Belvoir, Virginia] but that was too close to Washington D.C....

Wesley Fronk never fired a shot in anger. There was one instance where he and another soldier were returning from...

Oral History