Search results

Map is loading...

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

William McCowen was born in 1926 in Elmsford, New York. His family moved around frequently because his father worked...

Irvin C. Klimas is not sure the war itself changed him. Changing his life to go to the Navy for 38 months gave him a...

Loren Bennett was born in October 1927 in Chicago [Annotator's Note: Chicago, Illinois]. He did not have any siblings....

When they bombed Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941], there...

Walter Trauner was born in 1925 in Boonton, New Jersey. His father had a bakery there. In 1929, his father sold the...

[Annotator's Note: There is some informal talking between the interviewer and interviewee at the beginning of the tape...

Two weeks after the attack at Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December...

John Hever was born in 1924 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was the second of four children and the only boy....

William O’Brien remembers when the skipper left. They did training on the Pacific side of the canal [Annotator's Note:...

Joel Varner was born in October 1923 in Senatobia, Mississippi. He attended high school and junior college there. He...

[Annotator's Note: The tape begins with the interviewee describing an attack on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan, by...

Oral History