The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Kelly Kuwayama was drafted a year before Pearl Harbor and entered the Army. He was assigned to a coastal artillery unit...

Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...

Jacqueline Bishop was extremely excited when the war ended. She was 15 years old. She remembers it was VJ-Day [...

[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off camera prompting the interviewee to answer the interviewer’s questions...

Richard Keller received a Distinguished Service Cross but he does not think he deserved it. While recovering in the...

William Epperson was awarded the Bronze Star for his action in Soye, France [Annotator's Note: Soye-en-Septaine]....

Samuel Spector felt that the Kachins were on a friendly basis but not strictly military disciplined. It was more a team...

After enduring an artillery barrage in a coconut grove, William Garbo's unit [Annotator's Note: G Troop, 2nd Squadron,...

[Annotator's Note: Clayton Fisher served in the Navy as a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot in Bombing Squadron 8...

When Astley Blackwell got in the water he realized that his life belt had a hole in it. He grabbed a keg which had come...

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