The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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After he recovered sufficiently in the hospital, John Witmeyer was sent back to the front lines in January of 1945...

After the invasion of the Kwajalein Atoll [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Kwajalein Atoll, 31 January to 3 February...

Wallace Jeffery was born on 27 January 1922 in Sioux City, Iowa. He moved many times but by nine years of age, the...

Delano Brister witnessed the Louisiana Maneuvers in 1941. The operations took up much of central Louisiana including...

For Allen Tillery, returning to civilian life was not much of an adjustment because it happened so fast. He thought for...

During the Korean War Thomas Ballew served in General MacArthur's Headquarters in Tokyo. He was in personnel [Annotator...

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

William McCowen signed on to a crew for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953] and was sent overseas to Kadena...

Vernon Breen says that during the trip across the North Atlantic [Annotator's Note: Atlantic Ocean], the weather was...

Louise Settles worked in personnel, mostly making assignments. She had never left the United States before the Army....

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