Search results

Map is loading...

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin "R.V." Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in...

Bailey had been walking around the ship [Annotator's Note: the ship that was taking him to the invasion of Okinawa]. He...

Firman Balza was transferred off the ship on 7 April 1944, and watched the Maryland [Annotator's Note: USS Maryland (BB...

Russell Clay found that his wartime experience as a barber in the Navy meant little in transitioning to civilian barber...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

Leaving Okinawa, Robert Knudson shipped back to San Diego, California in the fall of 1945, then got a 30 day leave. His...

Paul J. Murphy [Annotator’s Note: a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] sailed to San Francisco [...

They got into the base and they stayed and ate. The next morning, they put them on a C-47. There was 2 or 3 other ex-...

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Warren Schmitt and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Savo Island (CVE-78)] participated in five invasions from...

Oral History