The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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On 12 May 1944, there was a big air raid with 800 bombers and top cover from Hub Zemke and his wolf pack. They came...

John W. Marr and the men of the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment loaded into their transport airplanes on the evening...

William V. Cross [Annotator’s Note: with the 261st Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry Division] crossed into Germany...

After the invasion they left Southern France [Annotator's Note: Perrett means Northern France, in June 1944] and...

[Annotator's Note: Curt Simmons served in the Navy in the Armed Guard as a gunner aboard merchant ships in the North...

Wanda Damberg and her fellow internees witnessed three young men from their group attempt an escape [Annotator’s Note:...

On 10 November [Annotator's Note: 10 November 1944], Gabriel Kinney was sent back to the airport [Annotator's Note: at...

Ira Schilling was born in June 1924 in Saratoga, Texas. His parents separated when he was very young and he moved to...

When Robert Liles arrived in China, he and the other pilots lived in hostels. They also had Chinese room boys that took...

Eva Gross was sent to the Krakow-Plaszow concentration camp in Poland [Annotator's Note: this was after a short stay in...

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