The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Mary Leisey believes that the man who had cancer was the only one to pass away under her care. Some men were going home...

Edwin McAuliffe's father was born in Ireland and was wounded during World War 1 at Gallipoli. His mother was born in...

Clyde East stayed with the 15th Squadron [Annotator’s Note: 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron] and continued his...

James Allen remembers Henry Glinski coming aboard with him. Glinski was a couple years older than Allen. Allen had...

[Annotator's Note: James Kemp McLaughlin flew 39 missions during two combat tours in Europe in Boeing B-17 Flying...

Gerhard Franzky’s unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters, 22nd Regiment, 10th SS Panzer Division "Frundsburg"] suffered...

From California they went to Kwajalein. There, Wendall Woodall tried to talk his radar operator into trying some...

In June 1942, Virgil Faust went overseas starting from Grand Island, Nebraska and traveling to Bangor, Maine, then to...

Peter Somogyi saw his father taken away within a week of 19 March 1944 [Annotator's Note: the day Germany occupied...

After the Battle of the Bulge they went into combat in Germany where John Caponigro was wounded again. After being...

Ernest Jackson could go off base on furlough. Some bases, like some of the little towns including Havelock and Cherry...

Oral History