Search results

Map is loading...

Richard Tempus Dixon was born in June 1925 in Oakland, California. He was the second of two sons raised by his father...

One day in late 1945 Allen Tillery was called in to the office of the colonel and informed that his application for the...

Jack Davis went to his military training at Camp Pickett [Annotator's Note: now Fort Pickett, near Blackstone, Virginia...

Kelly Kuwayama was drafted a year before Pearl Harbor and entered the Army. He was assigned to a coastal artillery unit...

After basic training, Herbert Yudenfriend was sent to Camp Howze in Texas near Dallas [Annotator's Note: Cooke County,...

George Shenkle was born in New Jersey in 1921. His father was a clerk to the superintendent of a steel company. His...

Charlotte Combs was born in April 1920 in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. She had two little...

Blaine Kern went to Czechoslovakia to tour the glass industry. The secret police were following him. He has a factory...

Frederick Ellis was born in Amite, Louisiana in October 1924. His father's business failed in the Great Depression and...

When the war started, Paul Takeo Bannai registered for the draft, hoping to fight for his country. He was not called up...

Richard F. Penwell was born in February 1923 in Lancaster [Annotator's Note: Lancaster, Pennsylvania]. His father...

Murphy Burke was born in Morgan City, Louisiana in February 1926. He and his only sibling, a sister, grew up in New...

Oral History