The events and stories documented in this book occurred during World War Two, all over the world, and were personally narrated by the veterans who lived them. The stories are divided by theater of operation- European and Pacific; all others went...
This is a transcript of an oral history interview with SGM Ada L. Mercado-Morales. It is dated: February 27, 1989. The audio version of this interview is also available through this archive.
SGM Mercado talks about joining the service, her time in...
This is a transcript of a taped interview with Sergeant Major of the Army William G. Bainbridge, conducted by Sergeant Major Erwin H. Koehler (United States Army, retired) for the Center of Military History, United States Army and the United States...
Major John Cole served as the commander of Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery - part of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division - during the initial offensive of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in 2003. In this interview,...
The Rhodesian African Rifles overcame profoundly divisive racial and tribal differences among its members because a transcendent "regimental culture" superseded the disparate cultures of its individual soldiers and officers. The RAR's culture grew...
This is a trascript of a 1993 interview with Sergeant Major of the Army George W Dunway (USA-ret) for the US Army museum of the noncommissioned officer sergeants major of the ARMY history book project.
In this May 2011 interview Mr. Charlie Lee Carden, born in 1921, discusses his service to our country during World War II. Mr. Carden was drafted into the Army and served as a company commander's driver for the majority of his service. T5...
The attack of the 502th Infantry regiment at BEST, HOLLAND, was a part of OPERATION MARKET which aimed to open a corridor from the Belgium-Holland border to the city of ARNHEM, HOLLAND. The corridor was to be established by means of a...
This is a transcript from a 1994 interview with Sergeant major of the Army Glen E. Morrell (USA-Ret.) for the US Army museum of the noncommissioned officer sergeants major of the ARMY book project.
This is a transcript of a 1994 interview with William A. Connelly, Sergeant Major of the ARMY, conducted for the Sergeant major of the ARMY history project.
This is a transcript of an oral history interview with Harold L. Hockenberry. It is dated: June 1, 1982. The audio version of this interview is also available through this archive. The interview was conducted by Harold G. Robbins, for the U. S....
I joined the Army on 14 February 1983, and went to Fort Jackson, South Carolina for basic training for eight weeks. From there I went to Fort Lee, Virginia for Advanced Individual Training. From there I went to The Army Airborne School where I...
Major Steve Chong deployed to Kuwait as the commander of Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery - part of 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division - in September 2002 for Operation Desert Spring. It was originally supposed to be a six-month...
This thesis is a historical analysis of the order that Brigadier General Thomas J. Wood received from Major General William Rosecrans during the Battle of Chickamauga. There are many questions concerning Wood’s actions on 20 September 1863....
This book is an attempt to summarize the facts of the XIX Corps' achievements in battle, and at the same time provide a running background of incident, and description which try to give the details of a few things that had to be done and be done...
Sergeant First Class Erika Strong was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from April 2003 to March 2004. She began her tour in the battle command on the move (BCOTM) as the intelligence battle captain. After major combat ended, she...
"Ask a doughboy or an officer about 'over there' these days, and nine times out of ten his answer will be, 'Oh, what's the use of talking about it? Folks are tired of hearing about the war."