The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Gerard Halpern finished high school in 1943 then took one semester at a City College before dropping out and joining...

David Roderick was discharged as soon as the war was over. When he was home he had bad dreams and once he hit the...

[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...

Masaji Inoshita was born in central California. At an early age he moved down to the Santa Barbara area. His father had...

Alexander Vraciu was on a mission with a flight of 12 aircraft when he noticed five Zeros [Annotators Note: Mitsubishi...

John Howland was born in Casper, Wyoming in 1920. He can trace his ancestry back to the days of the Pilgrims. After...

The bunkers were made of coconut logs placed over a deep hole with mud placed on the top of the logs [Annotators Note...

[Annotator's Note: Billy Grieves served in the Navy aboard the submarine USS Thresher (SS-200).] The islands [Annotator...

Robert Zawada began as a member of an I...

After he ate breakfast Rogers went up to the radio system that was set up on the apron at the airport. They moved the...

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