The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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The survivors hiked down the mountain to an enormous canoe that had paddlers down both sides with space in the middle....

Once Lieutenant John Marr and the rest of Company G, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment crossed the bridge at La Fiere,...

Lloyd Rogers remembers that there were temporary airfields in the Sahara Desert. Each airplane was dispersed with 100...

Harold Beal did not want to stay in the Navy. He had PTSD [Annotator's Note: post-traumatic stress disorder; a mental...

After graduating from advanced flight training, Henry Dubay received orders to report to Kansas where he was assigned...

Dale Bates wanted to be a pilot in the Army Air Corps and enrolled in college at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon...

The Red Cross members in London tried to talk Holly Reynolds out of getting married overseas but there was a group of...

Francis Dymnicki attempted to become a pilot in the Air Force. Half of his friends wanted to do the same. Dymnicki was...

Constance Negrotto attended USO dances after work. The girls would eat dinner and then hop into their formal gowns....

[Annotator's Note: James Gulotta served in the Army as an intelligence and reconnaissance team leader in the 21st...

Donelson Houseman experienced a terrible event after he was liberated. He went into town and could see the tanks [...

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