World War II Oral History Excerpts

About this Project

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Courtlyn Hotchkiss

Bailing Out Over Enemy Territory...

What WWII Did to Fort Collins

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Althea Williams

Nursing in Three Wars

My mother said, "Join the Service"

Virginia Moore

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Walter Winter

Junior Commandos

Ralph Giddings

Ralph Giddings

With Those Words My Life Was Forever Changed

War is Terrible

Gene and Margaret "Mo" Williams

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Robert H. Pike

Everything Was Directed Toward the War Effort

Our Greatest Threat Was Kamikaze Planes

Ross Bradley

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Leo Cefkin

Anti-Semitism in a German Church

Not-So-Happy Trips Home for Displaced Persons

Being a Switchboard Operator... You Got to Know a Lot of What Was Going On

Douglas George

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Harold Kennedy

I'd Never Seen a Mountain Before

Then Out of the Haze There Emerged Three Pursuit Planes

Training for Night Fighting and Impressing the Sergeant...

Hitler Wanted to Give the German People a Christmas Present

Discovering Concentration Camps at the End of the War...

Working on the Early State of the Development of the A Bomb

F. Winfield ("Bill") Michael

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Dorothy and Bonnie Nabors

Newlyweds at Pearl Harbor

"Hell, They're ALL Scary!" Experiences in Fifty Bombing Missions

Milton Mc Curry

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Mike Conte

It Wasn't All War

"Time and Days Didn't Mean that Much to Us," Being Part of the March Across Europe

Harold Johnson

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Andrew Mair

Farming in Wellington in WWII

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Howard Schnauber

As a Young Marine in Combat ...

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Richard Stevens

I Heard the Sound of Voices Shouting!

My brother said "Be prepared that the Japanese are going to invade..."

JoAnn Christman Chisholm

German Prisoners of War plaque

Dr. Janet Worrall

Prisoners of War in Colorado, a Lecture

Running a Beet Puller Before the POWs

Robert Stieben

Francis E. Clark

Francis E. Clark

Serving in a Military Hospital Laboratory

Women Don't Belong on Ships!

Natalie O'Brien Jones

Work, Work, Work and Train, Train, Train

Bill Rudolph

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Bill Aiken

Being a G. I. Watching American Bombers Heading Towards Germany

We Were All Equal, Integration, Class Structure in the WWII Army

We Had Not Heard Anything about these Concentration Camps

How WWII Changed My Career Dreams

Fran Thompson

A Positive Experience Serving in the Waves

Joan Deines

Francis E. Clark

Harold Warren

Being a GI with an Independent Spirit

It Was An Adventure; I was Young

Eleanor Kruchten

Happy Memories; Sad Memories

Margaret Gravdahl

A Japanese American's Experiences in the Aftermath of Pearl Harbor

Rev. Hiram Kano

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