Search results

Map is loading...

William Jennings Bryan Harrison, Jr. has fond and scary memories of his military service. He cannot imagine staying in...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

Byron Herbert Meader's most memorable experience of World War 2 was meeting up with the Russians and observing how they...

Robert Freligh probably decided to join the navy because his brother was in the army and there was most likely some...

In July 1945 at Camp Maui [Annotator's Note: Maui Island, Hawaii], James Shelton Scales and his staff [Annotator's Note...

Anna McCalla Noren was born in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1921. She grew up on a farm with her parents and four siblings...

Paul Takeo Bannai decided to go to Washington D.C. to lobby for the inclusion of Japanese-Americans in the military. He...

Harold C. Cook entered the Navy shortly after Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...

Nick Cristiano enlisted in the Army Air Corps because he wanted to be a pilot. He took the exams. He went to Greensboro...

James Patterson let the taxi driver watch him go in. His wife introduced him to his son. His son recognized him from...

Walter Bowsher joined the Marines and went to boot camp in San Diego. He attended sea school there and then was...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. His plane crashed and he was...

Oral History