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When one is wounded in the field, it is impossible to get out until nightfall. Andrew George Jameson [Annotator's Note...
Walter Barnes was born in New Orleans and grew up on Webster Street in the Uptown neighborhood. Life was good for him....
Arthur Jackson had his squad leader bring up some explosives and ammo but he was alone for the most part [Annotator's...
After liberating Paris France, George F. Mills [Annotator's Note: with the Company E, 2nd Battalion, 109th infantry...
Johnny Ngai did not do any special training for the landing in Southern France. They were physically fit. He only had...
[Annotator's Note: There is a tape break, and the clip starts with Harper Harvey Coleman mid-sentence.] An 88 [...
Some days after eliminating the machine gun position, Romus Burgin and his fellow Marines faced another machine gun...
John J. Cupina recalled the horrible cold weather and muddy terrain when all of a sudden a machine gun opened fired on...
A German medic came in who spoke English to Donald Evans [Annotator's Note: after being wounded and captured when his...
David Roderick saw German fortifications that were made to look like homes or barns and one town was only made of...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks George Sichler about different German weapons used against him.] Every night...
Bernard Friedenberg fought at Aachen, Germany on the Siegfried Line. He was doing the same thing over and over again...
Sol Lazinger and his comrades took turns going on patrols. Occasionally people would disappear in the night. While...
Rothacker Smith entered Sommocolonia on 1 December [Annotator's Note: 1 December 1944] and his last day there was 28...
[Annotator's Note: Daniel Farley served in the Army as a rifleman in Company A, 5th Ranger Battalion.] The German rifle...
James Goodrich was taken from Iwo Jima to a hospital on Guam. He was on Guam for about 12 or 13 days before being...
James Shelton Scales was a battalion commander [Annotator's Note: of 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine...
To William Lansford, all campaigns had goofy things happen. The first time he went out by himself he had been warned of...
When Ernest L. Poulson and his unit [Annotator's Note: 567th Bombardment Squadron, 389th Bombardment Group, 8th Air...
At the end of the war, Donald F. Goyette says, the United States could put 130 B-29s [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29...
Richard Keller's outfit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division] went back to...
In Normandy on D-Day [Annotator's Note: Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Gale Ammerman left his...
Henry Langrehr had times his guns jammed and by the grace of God, he never got shot. The Thompsons [Annotator's Note: ....
Going through the Haguenau Forest, Alex Lopez observed the area was torn up and mostly gone. He participated in a mop-...
Therese Wadsworth Warne's [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2]...
Karl Friedrich "Charley” König [Annotator's Note: or Koenig] and his regiment [Annotator's Note: Panzer-Regiment 5,...
Ted Winestone moved to another encampment because he felt like he was not hidden well enough [Annotator's Note: after...
[Annotator's Note: Gerard Dillon was wounded in France.] Dillon was in the hospital from June to September [Annotator's...
Vincent Losada woke up in the hospital and even though he was wounded, he considered himself lucky. He was put in a...
Clifton Trahan was hospitalized in Africa after being burned in a submarine attack while serving aboard the merchant...
Harry Quinn and his buddy attempted to locate the paratroopers the day after the landing [Annotator’s Note: the date...
John Wesley Tatum went to Peleliu [Annotator's Note: Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, September to...
Milton L. McMullen, Sr. and other men were crammed into a ship heading to Japan [Annotator's Note: as a Japanese...
Bruno S. Rinas believes some of his unit [Annotator's Note: 3rd Pursuit Squadron, 24th Pursuit Group] may have been on...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Selwyn Gilmore about a Medal of Honor recipient he knew.] Henry Erwin [...
James Allen remembers Henry Glinski coming aboard with him. Glinski was a couple years older than Allen. Allen had...

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