Search results

Map is loading...

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

[Annotator's Note: William Cart graduated flight training then was sent to Naval Auxiliary Air Station Miramar, in San...

Ferrier got to Pearl Harbor the day after the Hornet [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet CV-8, aircraft carrier] sailed. They...

After Okinawa, John Nicholas and the USS Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)] were sent to sweep for mines in...

Joseph Vater's older brother was old enough to serve, but was married and had a child, so he was not drafted. Vater was...

Richard Welch's most memorable experience of World War 2 was being on patrol off the West Coast looking for Japanese...

When James Patterson and his unit went to Manila [Annotator’s Note: Manila, the Philippines], they went into some of...

[Annotator's Note: This interview is conducted with a group of Navajo veterans present, many of whom answer questions...

Harold G. Cowart was born in September 1924 in Statesboro, Georgia. His parents were sharecroppers and he and his 11...

There were no jobs when Charles Bruce got out of the service. He got married right away. He met a high school girl and...

William Lutz thought there would be more firing of weapons. He sat behind a machine gun. It was different from the...

Oral History