The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Another torpedo came and hit the USS California [Annotators Note: during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor]. Another...

As John Marr led his advanced scout team back to the position of Captain Ben Schwartzwalder [Annotator's Note:...

Lionel Lopez remembers that they took a ship to Australia, but ended up in San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San...

Pete Brock and his twin brother enlisted in the Navy together on 27 April 1944 and were called to active duty on 6 June...

Perrett's contact with the German prisoner of war (POWs) he transported was very brief. The POWs were usually quite and...

Wanda Damberg had relatives in Holland during the German occupation [Annotator’s Note: the German sweep into Holland...

Ira Schilling killed a Japanese soldier on Guadalcanal with a shotgun. In the morning, before the Marines moved out...

Robert Liles contracted amoebic dysentery in China and was sent to a hospital in India. He flew back to his base in a...

Eva Gross returned to Bergen-Belsen and stayed there for three years before immigrating to the United States. During...

There was a young man with whom Violet Walsh corresponded throughout the war. He was her high school pen pal from...

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