The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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Grant Ichikawa was first taken to an assembly center located on a horse racing track near Turlock, California. His...

Wilburn K. Ross was on a ship heading through the Straits of Gibraltar when an announcement was made that Germany had...

When asked about a general message about his service and war, Eugene Tarrant references Civil War General Sherman's [...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

[Annotator's Note: Norman Hatch served as a combat cameraman with the 5th Marine Division on Iwo Jima.] On Iwo Jima,...

By the time Barney Old Coyote got out of the service the letter [Annotators Note: see Barney Old Coyote Segment 1] had...

Elmo Bell fought all the way across France. His unit [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute...

[Annotator's Note: This segment is the beginning of a second interview recorded with Mrs. Grant in the studio at The...

Linda Hope recalls "the Yellow Ribbon Party" which occurred after her father’s last tour when he was 87 years old [...

John McConn fought his first major battle at Saint-Dié [Annotator's Note: Saint-Dié-des-Vosges]. The Americans were on...

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