The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Perry Smith was born at West Point, New York in 1934 while his father was serving as an instructor at the US Military...

Edwin McAuliffe was in Covington [Annotators Note: Covington, Louisiana] visiting friends. The news came across the...

Clarence Herbert Weatherwax was at home on the morning of the attack. He heard a loud explosion but did not know what...

Surviving the aerial attack on his B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber], Earl Williams and...

Even though he was a small boy, William Hussey was aware that there was a fear that the Japanese would invade Hawaii....

Firman Balza believes that the Japanese lost the war that first day, but it took the United States three and a half...

On 7 December 1941, Ray Emory stayed on his gun all day and all night, without relief. After he saw the USS Oklahoma (...

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

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