The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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[Annotators Note: Wesley Trindal served in the US Army as a rifleman in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry...

[Annotator's Note: Daniel Farley served in the Army as a rifleman in Company A, 5th Ranger Battalion.] The German rifle...

George Kays carried a 45 [Annotator's Note: .45 caliber M1911 semi-automatic pistol] and an M1 [Annotator's Note: .30...

Leonard Gaj [Annotator’s Note: captured on D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944, while serving...

Robert Harris was based in England for one year at a base called Barkston Heath near Grantham. [Annotator’s Note: the...

Earl Erion fell in love and got married after his discharge from the Navy. He was back in Northern Minnesota. World War...

Calvin Moret and the Tuskegee Airmen helped break down racial barriers. They did not realize at the time that they were...

Richard Scheerer was born in December 1915 and grew up in Kansas City [Annotator's Note: Kansas City, Missouri]. His...

Gerhard Franzky remembers the most important thing after Hitler came to power was that the school schedule changed....

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