Video oral history interview, with Dr. Bernard Sternsher, retired Bowling Green State University history professor, about his experience serving in the U.S. Navy in the European and Pacific theaters during World War II. Included are Dr. Sternsher's stories on sinking in the Atlantic onboard the USS…
Video oral history interview with James Snyder about his experience serving as a baker in the 3009th U.S. Army Bakery in the European theater during World War II. Included are his stories of travelling to England, baking on the front lines, and his discharge and return home. Recorded for Dr. Walter…
Video oral history interview with Leland Kessler about his experience serving in the U.S. Army in the European theater during World War II. Included are his stories of shipping over to England, flying missions over Germany in a B-17 bomber for the 306th Army Air Corp Bomb Group, and being shot down…
Video oral history interview with Wilber James Saneholtz about his experience in the U.S. Army Air Corp as a second lieutenant during World War II. Included are his stories of training B-24 pilots in Fort Worth, Texas; B-24 plane crashes; training to fly B-29 planes; and life on the U.S. home front.…
Video oral history interview with Willard and Beulah Miller about their experiences during World War II. Willard Miller describes his time serving in an Allied occupation force in Italy, while Beulah Miller describes her experiences on the U.S. home front during the war. Recorded in the fall of 2003…
Video oral history interview with Lester Arnold about his experience serving in a U.S. Army field hospital in Naples, Italy during World War II. Included are his accounts of sailing across the Atlantic Ocean under threat of German U-boats, working in Naples and North Africa, and selling surplus…
Video oral history interview with Leland Kessler about his experience as a top turret gunner for the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II. Included are his stories of joining the Air Corp, minimal training as a gunner, bailing out over the Irish Sea, and his mission bombing over Germany that…
Video oral history interview with John Gocsik about his experience as a combat engineer for the 202nd U.S. Army Battalion in the European theater during World War II. Included are his stories about training, travelling overseas, training in Ireland and England, and fighting on Omaha Beach, the…
Video oral history interview with Charles Thomas about his experience as a private first class for the U.S. Army and Air Corp during World War II. Included are stories of his time in a military stockade for missing his ship to Europe, fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, transferring to the Air…
Audio oral history interview with Clifford Duncan about his experience as a captain in the U.S.'s 540th Army Engineers during World War II. Included are his stories about General George Patton and combat in North Africa, Italy, Europe, and the Burma road. Recorded in the fall of 2003 for Dr. Walter…
Audio oral history interview with Leslie Dibert about his experience as an engineer in the U.S. Army's 411th Engineer Battalion in the Pacific theater during World War II. Included are his descriptions of working on landing boats at nine different bases. Recorded December 12, 2003 for Dr. Walter…
Audio oral history interview with Joseph Whisler about his experience as a motor machinist mate first class for the U.S. Navy in European theater during World War II. Included are Joseph's stories about training, transporting tank landing ships down the Ohio River, and sailing between Africa and…
