The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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All of the men in Zawada's squad wondered why they were going behind German lines to liberate Hammelburg. Rumors...

Roger Shaw returned to the United States by way of Northern Ireland. The SS George Gayle sailed alone before reaching...

Monty Joe Boitnott loaded transports with over 250,000 prisoners. Some of the prisoners were kept in North Africa for...

Kelly Kuwayama was away from his unit for about three weeks before he had to rejoin them. The 44nd was sent back to...

Robert L. Williams was born in Covington, Kentucky in 1922 and raised in Park Hills. His life was fairly boring until...

Claude L. Lewis was born in 1922. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global economic depression that...

[Annotator’s Note: Francis Dolsen is listening to another veteran and the interviewer speaking.] The tail gunner...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...

Barbara Butler got her orders and flew to Seoul, Korea. She was sent to a replacement depot at an Army installation....

William Epperson saw the concentration camp at Dachau while he was stationed in Munich. The first attempt had been...

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