The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Charles Scheffel met up with the 9th Infantry Division near the airport in Algiers. It was the 9th Division's job to...

John Weinart notes that three months after he got to Europe there were only ten of them left. Many were killed, injured...

Years later Vejtasa asked Japanese veterans if they had thought about strafing the deck and they said no. Vejtasa would...

Baum remembers when they broke through Schweinheim they were moving pretty fast. By that point, the Germans knew they...

Willard Ashford’s most memorable experience of the was was driving an 18-wheeler to Admiral Nimitz’s [Annotator's Note...

[Annotator's Note: Michael Mervosh served in the USMC in Company C, 1st Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...

David Paul Spencer did not run into problems with anyone except Goring [Annotators Note: German Reichsmarschall Hermann...

Frank Buschmeier recalls that the March 6th Berlin raid was terrible. The flak was noted for its intensity on that raid...

While talking with the man, Jones's copilot showed up. The men felt better seeing each other.The young man had a hand...

Theodore Van Kirk, known as Dutch, was born in Pennsylvania. He grew up in a very small town and he described himself...

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