Search results

Map is loading...

Mahlen Arledge left Peleliu after the battle for the island was won. His company [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd...

The military aide told Hershel Williams to take the envelope and do not open it as it was a court martial offense if it...

Victor K. Carman joined the Navy because he did not want to be a foot soldier in the Army or Marines. He had flown a...

The Japanese hit their fuel supplies and it caused a lot of damage [Annotator's Note: on Wake Island on 8 December 1941...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

Steve McMurray was born in June 1925 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father worked as an accountant for a realty company...

When they left Guam, Walter Jacobs suffered acute tonsillitis and had to go to the hospital. He was still there when...

Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211...

Howard Warren Stokes was born in 1926 in Lodi, California and was an only child. His father supported his family during...

Lenwood Steglich never talked about his time in the Navy. His family never asked him about it. His three grandchildren...

William Winter assumed that after finishing OCS [Annotator's Note: officer candidate school] he would be sent to an...

[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...

Oral History