The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner By Randall Jarrell From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me
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By Wendell Nicholls As told to Mary Louis I was born in Sonora, California on April 30, 1921. My family lived in Soulsbyville, just up the hill from Sonora. I lived there for the first 25 years of my life. My parents were Evelyn and Royal Nicholls. I had four siblings. Aileen, Ruth, and Francis
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By Arthur Moore as told to Jim and Judy Hamilton My name is Arthur Moore; no middle initial. I was born May 3, 1919, in Willits, about 150 miles north of San Francisco. My mother’s name was Bertha Friesendorf and my father’s was Arthur Moore. She was from Hamburg, Germany, and came to San Francisco
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By Denny Thompson as told to Bill and Celeste Boyd I gazed down from the aircraft as we crossed the English Channel and saw hundreds of ships heading for the beaches of France. It was June 6, 1944 and I knew that the troops were hitting the beaches on D-Day as we flew toward Lisieux,
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Celia Seubert in dress uniform, 1944 By Celia Seubert As told to Mary Louis I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to Ben and Cecelia Veronica Upchurch on Jan. 20, 1923. Shortly after, my family moved to Manhattan, New York, where my brother, Robert was born three and a half years later. My father traveled a
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The war? It’s just hard to fathom the whole goddamn thing happened. I’ve always wanted to leave it all in the last foxhole. Why anyone would want to have it in their mind and talk about it I can’t imagine. Now some guys, you see them and they just want to talk about the war.
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Jack Glass, 86, looks back on his two years of service aboard the USS Enterprise during World War II, including the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, one of many he feels fortunate to have survived.
