Search results

Map is loading...

Seymour Mermelstein was born October 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He was the oldest of three children born to Jewish...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Jack Yusen still frequently thinks about the men who died [Annotator's Note: when his ship, the USS Samuel B. Roberts (...

David Oreck was born in 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. Around the age of 18, he decided to go to the University of...

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

Donald Hoff [Annotator's Note: a rear seat gunner and radio operator on Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers in Scouting...

Burton Johnson had been in the service for three years when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: on...

Harry Walker Wellford [Annotator's Note: while serving as the radar officer aboard the USS Harrison (DD-573)] remembers...

When Glynn G. Raby Jr. first considered enlisting, he wanted to join the Air Corps. He was young, and aviation was...

Gabriel Spinelli began his active duty in March 1943. His basic training took place in Sacramento at a facility that...

Donald Witmer was on the USS Twiggs (DD-591) for its shakedown cruise to Bermuda. It was Christmas of 1943, and Witmer...

Phyllis Lenhard was born in August 1919 in Lorain, Ohio. Her only brother was a goalie on the Red Wings [Annotator's...

Oral History