The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Monroe S. Wolyn was shown the railroad tickets. They went from Berlin to Frankfurt [Annotator’s Note: Berlin and...

Following the Battle of the Bulge, Carrol Joy and his outfit [Annotator’s Note: the 514th Fighter Squadron, 406th...

Mildred Aupied worked on three Liberty ships at Delta [Annotator’s Note: she was a welder at the Delta Shipbuilding...

James Weller knew something was going on while he was near the German border. The OPs [Annotator’s Note: outposts] and...

Earl Tweed had heard from Lieutenant Al Ungerlighter [Annotator’s Note: unsure of spelling] about concentration camps....

Robert Inghram learned that 72 of 75 of the escapees were captured. The senior German officer, named Lindeiner [...

[Annotator's Note: Ralph Weymouth served in the Navy as a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 3 (VS-3) flying from...

Philip Schweitzer served as a combat medic with the 11th Airborne Division. Schweitzer was born and raised in Brooklyn...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

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