The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Within hours any ship passing the destroyer escorts loaded with prisoners would receive prisoners from those destroyer...

Richard Cole heard that some of the aircraft had cameras on them but his was not one of them. The picture of Doolittle...

Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was drafted and sworn into the army in July 1942. After taking aptitude tests, he was...

They [Annotators Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...

William Leibold never stopped believing that he would make it home to his wife. The reunion with his wife on his parent...

Monroe S. Wolyn remembers that they went north instead of south on this mission. They headed across the North Sea....

Carl Nygren remembers December 1944 in Tulsa [Annotator’s Note: Tulsa, Oklahoma]. He went to the USO [Annotator's Note...

John Paul flew 34 missions as a bomber pilot [Annotator's Note: with the 327th Bombardment Squadron, 92nd Bombardment...

Oral History