The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Billy Grieves watches movies like Run Silent, Run Deep religiously. He feels that they are more Hollywood than reality...

The Germans repaired Kalil's mouth and jaw. He did not mind it. He remembers the worst part was them cutting him open...

Zawada was in the camp for about a week before the American army liberated the camp [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war/...

Richard Ford left Bampton and went through Tidworth, England. They were there in the winter of 1942 to 1943. They were...

Towards the end of the war, they [Annotator's Note: the British officers] were telling them [Annotator's Note: Masaji...

Robert Shoens' squadron had about four to six planes available. When they went back to Berlin on the eighth [Annotators...

Robert L. Williams was amazed that he was able to find his friend Joe's grave. Williams had Joe's Army serial number...

Buck Donaldson remembers only one other sailor was in church on his first day in Norfolk [Annotator’s Note: Norfolk,...

Gerald Wayne Lux served in the United States Navy in the Pacific and made it to Australia and Japan. He volunteered for...

Robert L. Donovan was drafted. He wanted to enlist in the Air Force. He had hay fever so they did not let him enlist....

Oral History