The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Aschaffenburg, Germany was secured quickly. The Germans sent word that they wanted to surrender but would only do so to...

They were attempting to cross a river in order to capture an airfield that was suspected of housing German transport...

John Weinart notes that the previous story was probably the closest he ever got to being killed. It was not an unusual...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee knocks on the table throughout this segment.] Norman Cook served with the 856th...

Admiral Kinkaid [Annotato's Note: Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid] who had no experince with carriers or aviators, ordered a...

A Serbian doctor in the hospital hid Baum. By this point, he had discarded his dog tags because if the Germans had...

Caroline Bailey Pratt was born in June 1932 in Manila, the Philippines. Her father worked for the National Bank and...

Landing on Iwo Jima was not much different to Michael Mervosh and his men than some of their other amphibious landings...

Frank Buschmeier and his crew had another pilot for a few missions because the pilot was on leave. Fitzroy [Annotator's...

Theodore Van Kirk remembers what he was told about the bomb. All they knew was they had to get away from the area as...

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