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At the conclusion of World War 2, there were celebrations, but Thomas W. Gillette did not participate because he had...

Solis “Sol” Kaslow grew up in Philadelphia [Annotator’s Note: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]. He was drafted into the Navy...

David Roderick knew the true goal was to capture Cherbourg at the end of the peninsula which took until 25 June. It was...

Gowan Duffy remembers the waters were still rough from the storm the day before. As they hit the shore [Annotator’s...

[Annotator's Note: Joseph Lesniewski joined Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne...

Byron Othello Wilkins was taught what to do if he became a POW but no one figured they would become POWs. They boarded...

Eveline Peardon and her siblings visited the young soldiers every day after D-Day [Annotator’s Note: the 6 June 1944...

The Germans were good soldiers, well-trained, had good equipment, and did not want the Americans there. Thomas J....

Philemon Andrews Saint Amant was in the British Isles [Annotator's Note: the United Kingdom, with the 190th Field...

James H. "Jim" Pritchard was born in August 1925 in Ottawa, Kansas. He grew up there. He had three sisters and two...

Gerald West returned to the United States and went to a camp on Catalina island. There, the Marine Corps was training...

Robert L. Williams thinks it very important that museums and memorials commemorating World War 2 continue to tell the...

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