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Wayne Pierce returned to his regiment and was placed in Company B. He went to the battalion commander who told him...
[Annotator's Note: Richard Keller served in the Army as the company commander of Company E, 2nd Battalion, 148th...
It took three weeks for John H. Price, Jr. to make the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, all the while zig-zagging to...
Howard Genrich had an accident while disassembling a .50 caliber machine gun. His finger was caught in the bolt and he...
Edward Bale and his Marine Corps Medium Tank Company [Annotator's Note: Company C, 1st Corps Tank Battalion (medium)]...
Before Elmo Espree got on the ship for deployment overseas, his group of black soldiers was lined up first on the...
In early 1954, Bernard Marcus was visited by a colonel with the Signal Corps in Washington. The officer had been told...
Wallace Jeffery arrived in Scotland and was transported by train to his new camp in England. He stayed there for four...
Constance Negrotto was born on 8 August 1924 to Ralph and Inez Hinkel. When she was five years old, the family moved to...
After Operation Market Garden flights, Robert Harris continued flying transport and supply missions. He at times grew...
Wayne Pierce and his regiment were moved to an airbase in the south of England in anticipation of the start of the...
Benjamin Lesser and his family were able to escape to Hungary as a result of the papers received from the Gestapo head...
James White and the 103rd Infantry Division were transported by truck convoy deeper into France after arriving in...
Benjamin Carson found that evacuating Makin Island was far more difficult that arriving there. The tide worked against...
John Raaen and the men around him were ready to get on with the job that they were trained to do. They were tired of...
Joseph Simpson experienced snow and rain during the Battle of the Bulge. The men who fought in Bastone told Simpson...
When Raymond VanDuzer first went into the hedgerows [Annotator's Note: the hedgerows of Normandy] he mixed some drinks...
Henry Feldman reached France during the hedgerow fighting [Annotator's Note: he landed in Normandy on 4 July 1944]. His...
Joseph Medicine Crow walked all night after exiting the Liberty ship in France. They covered 25 miles the first night....
To Edmund Durocher, New Britain was just as bad as Guadalcanal. They went to New Guinea before they landed on New...
Howard Genrich experienced his first battle on 7 December [Annotator's Note: 7 December 1944] when they captured a town...
Robert Harris flew his first combat mission over France on D-Day. [Annotator’s Note: D-Day was on 6 June 1944 when...
Max Finesmith went into the briefing for his first mission before four in the morning. The plan was to takeoff by 8:30...
Once Raymond VanDuzer and his fellow soldiers cleared the beach they started marching or moved out on trucks. They went...
Richard Keller had a good friend from Alabama who was a funny guy. He received different training than Keller had...
John Singlaub completed his mission with the French resistance in France. His proposal for a mission to organize French...
Raymond VanDuzer then went to the Hurtgen Forest. VanDuzer really had a lot of wounded there. VanDuzer never thought he...
The Red Ball Express hauled the troops around and it was almost completely made of black drivers. When they got ready...
There was a chaplain in the camp [Annotator's Note: Stalag XVII-B] who went around in an effort to keep up the morale...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. to tell the story regarding his canteen on the wall in...
[Annotator's Note: Edmund Durocher served in the US Marine Corps as a radio telephone operator in Company H, 2nd...
After some time in Melbourne, Edmund Durocher and the other Marines [Annotator's Note: of the 1st Marine Division] were...
Benjamin Carson received ten days leave after the Makin Island raid. He was billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in...
Assigned to support the assault on Guam, Robert Judd's team [Annotator's Note: Undwerwater Demolition Team 4 (UDT-4)]...
Seymour Mermelstein was on night patrols most of the time and says they are all pretty much the same. He went out on...
They [Annotator's Note: John Mock and his fellow soldiers of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 422nd Infantry Regiment, 106th...

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