The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Edward LaPorta and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] got a lot of things done in the camp [Annotator...

Harley Reynolds and his unit were moving inland toward their objective. The first troops from his unit he ran into were...

John Rogers was fighting on Christmas Day [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1944] during the Battle of the Bulge. They...

Yellin recalls that the Japanese were in the caves. One person described that the Japanese were not on Iwo Jima, but...

Rankin had his own plush Gooney Bird [Annotator's Note: nickname for Douglas C-47 "Skytrain" transport aircraft] in...

Frank Pomroy went back to get the wounded Marvin Hattan who was screaming and moaning from his wounds [Annotator's Note...

Charles Moore had his next major mission when he participated in the invasion of Southern France. [Annotator’s Note:...

Leon Waldman went for a year to NYU [Annotator’s Note: New York University in New York City, New York]. When he entered...

Grover Tyner was born in September 1923 in Davisboro, Georgia, but grew up in Augusta, Georgia. His father was a pastor...

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