The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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[Annotator’s Note: Can hear someone in the background throughout this segment.] Around June 1945, Paul Hilton Madden Jr...

Kenneth Beckman trained with one crew prior to being sent overseas, then joined another crew just prior to leaving. He...

Russell Hoff has vivid memories of his prisoner of war experiences. He has flashbacks that will probably never leave...

Lynn Compton goes by the nickname Buck. Compton was born and raised in Los Angeles. He went to high school and then to...

John Noack was visited again by the interrogator on the third day. Noack held fast and the interrogator did not ask...

Douglas Holmes Blair was born in December 1925 in Roseburg, Oregon with one brother and a half-brother. Both of his...

Arles E. Cole [Annotator’s Note: a quartermaster on the USS West Virginia (BB-48) on the morning of 7 December 1941...

Cortland Claus was born in May 1925 in Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada. He spent his first 10 years going through grade four...

There were 2 shifts working and they would usually meet coming out. When they got to the camp everyone was outside on...

Not a lot occurred on Cape Gloucester. Arthur Pendleton put in a lot of time on Cape Gloucester that was incredibly...

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