The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Arnold Debrick has one regret [Annotator's Note: from his time in Company B, 9th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th...

Hillman James Prestridge was born in September 1924 in Cragford, Alabama, a small town of about 400 people. He had one...

Stella Sarnacki was laid off when the war ended. She met her husband through the mail. [Annotator’s Note: Sarnacki’s...

Charles Harrison said the war was over just in time, because none of the prisoners of war he was among could have lived...

Although the war ended in Europe, America was still fighting the Japanese in the East. Jules Levin was chosen to be...

Ernst Schrader was born on a large estate that his father worked on near Hamburg, Germany in October 1919. Hamburg was...

Theodore Skare was born in April 1924 in Two Harbors, Minnesota. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois when he was baby...

Anton Jaber was born in June 1925 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He grew up there and his mother died when he was two...

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator. He reported aboard the battleship USS...

On the last mission that Maurice Hackler flew over Ludwigshafen [Annotator's Note: Ludwigshafen, Germany], his aircraft...

While Harry Boughman was on leave in the United States, the war ended in Europe. He was transferred to Fort Hood, Texas...

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