Nov 13, 2019
I served on the Nevada in the Pacific
“I enlisted when I was 17 so I could have a choice of where I served. Otherwise, I would ...
Monthly Archives: November 2019
Nov 12, 2019
I became a bomber pilot and had never seen a plane except in the air
“I enlisted when I was 21, the week before the draft office would have grabbed me. I ...
Nov 11, 2019
We saved the world because we had to do it
I grew up during the Depression. Dad was gone and we didn’t have money. We put cardboard ...
Nov 10, 2019
They don’t ask you if you are ready to go to war
“I am going to be 92. I am like the little boy who says, I am three, but I am going to be ...
Nov 9, 2019
I was a photographer for the Navy in World War 2
“I was born in 1920 on a farm in Belle Plane, Wisconsin. There was no doctor so my father ...
Nov 8, 2019
We kept the kamikazes and submarines away from battleships
“I am 92. I left home when I was 16 years old and went to work in the textile mills with my ...
Nov 7, 2019
I was a German POW and they treated us well
“June 6, 1944, is a day I will never forget. I wasn’t scared because I didn’t have time ...
Nov 6, 2019
If her father had been alive this never would have happened
“Margot was born in 1939 in Germany. Her memories are slipping away so I will help tell ...
Nov 5, 2019
On a submarine, we had to learn how to live together and take each other for who we were
“My wife died in April. We were married for 72 years. I am 95 years old. I grew up in ...
Nov 4, 2019
It had been quite a life
“My great grandfather Phillips ran a tobacco shop in a little town near Charles Dickens’ ...