The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Robert Murphy located Gordon Prein and convinced him to come to the Las Vegas 505 reunion [Annotators Note: reunion of...

Richard Duchossois knew his unit was going to be a tank destroyer unit. None of the men in the battalion had ever even...

During the war years, Diana Belliard was in the United States. She lived in Chicago until 1940 then left to go to...

Opal James Grapes was born in Franklin County, Virginia in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She grew up on a farm...

Bruno Viani spent about a week in Marseilles after his arrival. There was a dock strike there so the troops helped...

George Spera and the troops of the 102nd Infantry Division passed through the town of Gardelegen, Germany without...

John Poole found out after the fact that Marseilles, France, where he landed, was a communist hotbed. The dock workers...

Only one of Robert Huber's friends was wounded during the war. He did not know the sergeant who was killed. The one who...

William J. Pribyl was born in September 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland. He served in the Army as the Technical Executive...

Bruno S. Rinas was stationed at Iba Field [Annotator's Note: Iba Airfield, Luzon, Philippines] when he heard about the...

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