Search results

Map is loading...

Reneau Breard and his unit [Annotator’s Note: the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] were...

William Balabanow joined the Merchant Marines after World War 2 had broken out. He never encountered the Germans...

By 17, Herman Pbert was a construction engineer [Annotator's Note: in Piedicavallo, Italy]. In the meantime, the war...

Kassal remembers they moved very quickly through France, through the Rhone Valley, stopping in various cities like...

When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...

Thomas Michael Holt was born in July 1919 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina. His father was head of a military school. Most...

Avon is 60 miles south of Mitchell, South Dakota. George McGovern spent the first three years of his life in Avon. He...

When Alex Vraciu bailed out over the Philippines he was at about 300 or 400 feet when hit parachute opened up. He hit...

Ralph F. Lafferty did not get to see his brother often, despite being in the same regiment [Annotator's Note: Lafferty...

James Read Kirk had never been out of the country before. He went to Bangor, Maine and practiced flying in formations....

When Charles Coolidge landed in Southern France there was little opposition after the major shelling the Germans took...

In September 1943, Harold Ashton's squadron [Annotator's Note: Patrol Squadron 21 (VP-21)] was sent to England. On the...

Oral History