The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Ralph Burch went to signal school in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco, California]. He was put in the...

Gabriel Kinney's unit [Annotator's Note: 2nd Battalion, 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), also known as Merrills's...

When Anthony Acevedo first arrived at Berga he could not see the camp. There were political prisoners there but they...

Larry Dawson told Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson and her sister Frina that their transport to America could be arranged so...

Jack Brukman realized that the big problem was that they were bombing from great heights and could not hit the target [...

Joy Skelton was born on Palembang on the island of Sumatra in what is now Indonesia in October 1939. She has two half-...

At 0530 in the morning of 16 December 1944, they were shelled until daybreak then the German guns stopped. John M....

Benedict Bronder would usually patrol at night while on PT-305. They would be accompanied by three other boats. They...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Carrel Reavis where he thinks the Montford Point Marines fit into the Civil...

Leon Hirsch enlisted in the Army Air Forces before high school graduation. He was inducted into service in August 1945...

Oral History