The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Leonard Jindra never saw any troops he served with intentionally commit crimes. It was the rear echelon troops who...

George Alaniz landed on the beach at Attu. [Annotator's Note: Alaniz was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 32nd...

From basic training, Aaron Baumgarten was sent to Great Falls, Montana which, at the time, was one of the headquarters...

Ittsei Nakagawa's father's side of the family came over to the United States [Annotator's Note: from Japan] around 1904...

Edward Allesandro said that most people are surprised to hear that the Coast Guard was fighting in World War 2. The USS...

[Annotator's Note: Lloyd Burns was a prisoner of war in Oflag XIII-B in Hammelburg, Germany.] Lloyd Burns began raiding...

At 3:30 in the morning [Annotator's Note: on 6 June 1944], Harold Baumgarten and Company B [Annotator's Note: Company B...

Eugene Tarrant would clean up the compartments of the mess attendants and things of that nature. He met a few Filipinos...

The battle on Tarawa provided countless opportunities for combat cameramen like Norman Hatch to capture story telling...

On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...

[Annotators Note: William Guarnere was a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

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