The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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James Bollich had just gotten back from the movies when he heard about the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Cyril de la Vergne was stationed at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in Vallejo, California.] They did...

Reginald Duncan's most memorable experience of World War 2 was getting off the train and reuniting with his wife after...

Grant Patton had an amateur radio license. He joined the Naval Reserve Radio Network. He volunteered as a Navy radioman...

Bell has trouble bringing up exactly what his unit was doing at the time because he remembers it as a, "constant...

The train was moving fast. The train brought them to California. They brought the companies up to full strength. His...

Schmedemann's career was in his hands. He wanted to go to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth,...

Romus Burgin was born in Jewett, Texas and stayed there until he graduated high school in 1941. He joined the Marine...

The training Marines receive is to make sure that they are always ready. After boot camp, Keith Renstrom went into...

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

Daniel Farley was hit in the shoulder by a sniper in a church steeple. The Rangers with him shot the sniper. It was not...

Oral History