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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I remember Vernon Dunlavy, my principal at Sonora High, writing in my yearbook, “You’re going to go a long way in life.” That really hit me. I always remembered what he wrote, and I guess in many ways he was right. ~ Tete Arellano By Graciano “Tete” Arellano As told to Chace Anderson Sonora and
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By Max Kernaghan As told to Packy Maxwell I spent about four years during World War II in the Army Air Corps (which became the U. S. Air Force after the war) which included operations in a war zone. I owe the service a lot. They took on a 19-year-old kid, housed, clothed, fed, and
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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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By Robert Rundle as told to Mary Louis I was born in Stockton, California to William and Pearl Rundle. Two and a half years earlier my brother, William, had been born. I lived on Ophir Street in Stockton and had some very good buddies across the street. They were cousins to a certain girl, Ruth
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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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VIDEO: Scroll to page bottom to hear Mr. Kennedy describe liberation of Gunskirchen Lager concentration camp By James Kennedy As told to Celeste and Bill Boyd Like those of most World War II veterans, my experiences in the service changed me forever. I was part of the 564th Field Artillery Battalion, 71st Infantry Division, and
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By Joe Uvelli As told to Joy Conklin This is the story of my service in the United States Army during World War II, as part of the 793rd Military Police Battalion, Company B. I served in Europe from Utah Beach through France to Antwerp, Belgium. I’m proud of what I did to fight back
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