Search results

Map is loading...

When Fergus Van Wart was aboard ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bergen (APA-150)], the thing that frightened him more than...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks James Billingsley to talk about a soldier who committed suicide.] A guy told...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee’s wife interjects throughout this clip.] Sherwin Lansing Eddy readjusted to civilian...

Charles Martin was at the hospital when the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945]. He found out that...

Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

In the early summer of 1945, Jack D. Owen [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the USS Colusa (APA-74) as the radar striker]...

George Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) participated in the shelling of Shuri Castle during the Battle of...

Thomas Kolesa was told to clean up his area and get everything ship shape. General MacArthur [Annotator's Note: General...

Thomas Long said they made four landings among the small islands around Okinawa, under limited enemy fire. Their...

Charles Wesley Borders was home when the Japanese surrendered. He celebrated for a week. Borders fell in love with...

[Annotator's Note: A person off camera comments in the background throughout this clip.] Harry A. Donovan did not...

Charles Wesley Borders was strafing a target in New Guinea and got hit. He nursed the airplane back to a temporary base...

Oral History