The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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One could fire automatically from the hip. The M-1 could get muddy, wet, and whatever else and it would fire. The...

[Annotator’s Note: Screen is black until 1:04:31.360.] Rowland Elliott Ball served as a navigator with the 60th...

Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...

On the trip from Pendleton to Columbia [Annotators Note: Oregon to South Carolina in December 1941] Richard Cole was...

Charles Coolidge recalls the weather at Monte Cassino as being cold and rainy. Coolidge feels that had they gone with...

Deen was hit on the top of Wana Ridge [Annotators Note: Okinawa, April 1945]. He was hit by a Japanese knee mortar....

Earnest told the man at the base that he was ordered to Torpedo Squadron 8. He was to report to them in 3 days. Three...

[Annotator's Note: William Leibold served in the Navy as a Chief Boatswain's Mate and made all five war patrols aboard...

David Roderick was discharged as soon as the war was over. When he was home he had bad dreams and once he hit the...

John Witmeyer went to enlist in the United States military the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, 8...

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