The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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John Keema and a lot of the guys he flew with had qualms about the Münster raid. Unfortunately he did not have anyone...

William Pena arrived at the aid station. The medic that had been attached to him and his men joked that they had...

[Annotators Note: This segment begins with the interviewer asking George Wichterich about the hedgerow fighting in...

On 13 February 1945, Manfred Bahman and his family fled Dresden [Annotator’s Note: Dresden, Germany] after the Allies...

Thomas W. Stevenson Jr. served with the 772nd Bombardment Squadron, 463rd Bombardment Group, 5th Bombardment Wing,...

Alexander Jefferson listened to the BBC [Annotator's Note: British Broadcasting Corporation] radio at the POW [...

Surviving a Storm

After 29 days aboard ship, O’Neil Ducharme landed at Guadalcanal [Annotator’s Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands]. Upon...

Lieutenant John Marr had encounters with other American officers and commanders in the field early on in the Normandy...

Lloyd Rogers remembers the new B-25 [Annotator's Note: North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber] was a better...

Oral History