The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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At Sioux City, the ground crew was completing their training and going on last leaves. One day, the first sergeant...

Norman Hatch finished his photography training in New York City sometime in April 1942 then returned to Quantico,...

Another frightening experience Gravois had was during the Battle of the Matanikau River. For the battle they [Annotator...

Mancel Grant Kirk was born near Finger, Tennessee in 1925 and spent his whole life there except when he went away for...

From 20000 feet the Japanese carriers could be seen maneuvering below. The carriers could be identified by their size...

Socrates Dendrinelis was assigned to the USS Carina (AK-74). They headed to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl...

Robert Curl entered the Navy never having been very far from home. It was to be a different experience for him. He had...

John Alison's departure from Burma occurred when he was behind enemy lines. He left in a damaged RAF [Annotator's Note...

After the war, Harry Bell kept up with several guys he served with but those contacts slowly faded away except for his...

Judith Baron arrived in Sweden along with many other sick people on the ship [Annotator's Note: she departed from...

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