The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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It was only a storm that allowed the Enterprise [Annotators Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6)] to not be in Pearl Harbor...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with the video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr...

Donald Bryan took off on 140 missions but only completed 138 of them. The bombers aborted on two of them because of...

Frank Mancuso was born and raised in the 9th ward of New Orleans and attended C.J. Colton High School. His father died...

Edward Shames and his men stopped at a French farmhouse and met an old lady and man. The woman started to scream and...

John Witmeyer harbored an intense anger toward German soldiers. He punched German prisoners in the face, ran bayonets...

During the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

Wallace Jeffery and his outfit of direction finders entered Normandy on 7 June 1944. The men climbed over the side of...

Delano Brister had a career in the United States Army. The Louisiana Maneuvers made a great impression on him. He...

William McCowen's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a nearby town in Italy captured Mussolini [...

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