The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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John Symons started out with P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft]. Chennault [Annotator's...

[Annotators Note: Janice Benario served in the navy as a member of the WAVES and worked with ULTRA intercepts decoding...

Rosa was part of a wealthier bunch according to Church. Church went back after the war to find her but she had gone...

William Lansford served as a machine gunner in the weapons platoon of Company E, 2nd Marine Raider Battalion on...

Yamamoto [Annotator's Note: Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet] did not receive...

Sidney Philips remembers hearing about Pearl Harbor while sitting at a drug store counter on the corner of Dauphin and...

When Snapp arrived at the hotel [Annotators Note: in Sweetwater, Texas for WASP training] there was roughly thirty to...

They moved to Palermo. They did some road work there and tried to catch up with the infantry.Fortunately, they were not...

Bloody Ridge had other names but that night it was officially named Bloody Ridge. It was the one spot that the Japanese...

Abe Milkis was born in 15 January 1924 in Philadelphia. He had one brother and one sister. His brother, Harry, was a...

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