World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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World War, 1939-1945
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- Voices of history, 1941-1945, Bradley G. Larson ; edited by Virginia L. Gross ; photography, H. William Krueger ; design and layout, Donald C. Oberweiser ; transcription, Thomas M. Sullivan
- Easy Company soldier, the legendary battles of a sergeant from World War II's "Band of Brothers", Don Malarkey and Bob Welch
- Old Glory Honor Flight's Operation Legacy, the wartime experiences of Northeast Wisconsin's greatest generation, Scott Delsart & Andrew MacDonald
- Lines of battle, letters from American servicemen 1941-1945, edited by Annette Tapert
- Eleanor's story, an American girl in Hitler's Germany, Eleanor Ramrath Garner
- Write to me, letters from Japanese American children to the Librarian they left behind, Cynthia Grady ; illustrated by Amiko Hirao
- In my sights, the memoir of a P-40 ace, James B. Morehead
- When it was our war, a soldier's wife on the home front, Stella Suberman
- Rhineland, the battle to end the war, W. Denis Whitaker & Shelagh Whitaker
- Tailspin, John Armbruster
- Currahee!, [by] Donald R. Burgett. With a foreword by Martin Blumenson
- The man who flew the Memphis Belle, memoir of a WWII bomber pilot, Robert Morgan, with Ron Powers
- Brothers in battle, best of friends, two WWII paratroopers from the original Band of brothers tell their story, William "Wild Bill" Guarnere and Edward "Babe" Heffron with Robyn Post
- The war journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause, Damon "Rocky" Gause ; with an introduction by Damon L. Gause
- Desert fire, the untold story of the air mission that cut off Hitler's oil, John E. Blundell
- The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- Friends made, moments shared, memories for life, an oral history of VMSB 343 United States Marine Corps in World War II, by members of the VMSB 343 Reunion Association ; Walter G. LeTendre, compiling editor ... [et al.]
- Lost in Tibet, the untold story of five American airmen, a doomed plane, and the will to survive, Richard Starks and Miriam Murcutt
- My hitch in hell, surviving the Bataan death march, Lester I. Tenney
- The liberators, America's witnesses to the Holocaust, Michael Hirsh
- The Bedford boys, one American town's ultimate D-Day sacrifice, Alex Kershaw
- Those who fall, by John Muirhead
- The Japanese American internment, an interactive history adventure, by Rachael Hanel
- On the horizon, Lois Lowry
- Tales from a tin can, the USS Dale from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, Michael Keith Olson
- Every man a hero, a memoir of D-Day, the first wave at Omaha Beach, and a world at war, Ray Lambert and Jim DeFelice
- Thirty seconds over Tokyo, Ted W. Lawson ; edited by Robert Considine
- The bomber boys, heroes who flew the B-17s in World War II, Travis L. Ayres
- Crisis in the Pacific, the battles for the Philippine Islands by the men who fought them, Gerald Astor
- Death traps, the survival of an American armored division in World War II, Belton Y. Cooper ; foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose
- The two worlds of Jim Yoshida,, by Jim Yoshida, with Bill Hosokawa
- American shoes, a refugee's story, Rosemarie Lengsfeld Turke and Garrett L. Turke
- Tumult in the clouds, James A. Goodson
- Parachute infantry, an American paratrooper's memoir of D-Day and the fall of the Third Reich, David Kenyon Webster ; introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose
- The greatest generation, Tom Brokaw
- Into the rising sun, in their own words, World War II's Pacific veterans reveal the heart of combat, [reported by] Patrick K. O'Donnell
- On the horizon, Lois Lowry ; illustrated by Kenard Pak
- The deadly brotherhood, the American combat soldier in World War II, John C. McManus
- Code talker, Chester Nez, with Judith Schiess Avila
- The forbidden diary, a B-24 navigator remembers, John L. Stewart
- Women remember the war, 1941-1945, Michael E. Stevens, editor, Ellen D. Goldlust, assistant editor
- The greatest generation speaks, letters and reflections, Tom Brokaw
- I marched with Patton, a firsthand account of World War II alongside one of the U.S. Army's greatest generals, Frank Sisson with Robert L. Wise
- Menasha's World War two stories, The Menasha Historical Society presents
- All the gallant men, an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor, Donald Stratton with Ken Gire
- Guadalcanal, Tarawa and beyond, a mud Marine's memoir of the Pacific island war, William W. Rogal
- Life as a Battle of Britain Spitfire pilot, Arthur Donahue ; edited by Hannah Holman
- My war, Andy Rooney
- The road to Arnhem, a Screaming Eagle in Holland, Donald R. Burgett
- 82 days on Okinawa, one American's unforgettable firsthand account of the Pacific war's greatest battle, Col. Art Shaw (Ret.) with Robert L. Wise
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