The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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After France, Bernard Baker entered Germany. He went through Heidelberg and Darmstadt, Germany. In Darmstadt, Baker...

William Meredith remembers the 336th [Annotator’s Note: 336th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force] was...

Hershel Williams was sent to the capitol city of Charleston [Annotator's Note: Charleston, South Carolina] and from...

[Annotators Note: The interview begins with John Gibbons and the interviewer discussing what got the interviewer...

Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...

James Carrington has previously been interviewed by Tom Brokaw and for Oliver North’s War Stories. Carrington was born...

Rosemary Fagot remembers the difficulties she had translating for the United Fruit Company because of the cultural...

Tom Quigley and his men watched their comrades try and make their way up Hill 192 under heavy German fire, and saw a...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the sound does not sync with video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr....

After 30 days at home, Walter Ehlers returned to his unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 18th Infantry...

During the battle in the Parroy Forest in eastern France, John Witmeyer had two Sherman tanks at his disposal to break...

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