Oral History Project

The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum staff and volunteers have been collecting oral histories from destroyer escort veterans and WWII veterans since 1998.

Click each interviewee's name to hear or watch their interviews.

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HS AETOS

D-01

Stelios Baltis

USS Loeser

de-680

Hugo ‘Doc’ Dachenhausen

Uss bates

de-68/apd-47

William ‘Stan’ McMillian

uss paul g. baker

de-642

Jerald Brown

Edmund Anastasi

uss coffman

de-191

Merritt Smith

uss reynolds

de-42

Frank Bossidy

Douglas Owen Nicholson

uss earl k. olsen

de-765

Edward Bohmann

uss formoe

de-509

Lester Beauchaine

uss gandy

de-764

Howard Clarkson

uss van voorhis

de-1028

James Moore

uss leslie b. knox

de-580

Daniel Goldstein

USS MALOY

DE-791

Alfred Marker

USS Fessenden

DE- 142

Crew Member

USS SPENCE

DD-512

Edward Miller

USS John M Bermingham

DE-530

John Acer

USS WISEMAN

DE-667

Manuel Maroukis

USS SPANGLER

DE-696

William Irwin

USS Athert0n

de-169

Richard Holmes

USS Lovering

de-39

Monroe Damon

Ralph Dodd

uss bunch

de-694/apd-79

Carl Pitt

uss pettit

de-253

Martin Davis

Martin Davis

uss connolly

de-306

Samuel Saylor

uss robert f. keller

de-419

Robert Donlon

uss fiske

de-143

Robert E. Nolte

uss fechteler

de-157

Martin C. Smith

uss george A. johnson

de-583

George Rothlauf

uss lloyd

de-209/apd-63

Robert Hemenway

Uss Walter S. Brown

de-258

Alan Guard

USS LEONE

DE-361

Augustus Johnston

USS POPE

DD-225

Eddie Howell

USS FRAMENT

DE-677

Edward Tallau

USS CHATELAIN

DE-149

Joseph Villanella

USS FRANCIS M. ROBINSON

DE-220

Otto Johnk

USS blair

de/der-147

Rush Mellinger

Stephen Krupinski

Uss o’reilly

de-330

John Bartko

Norval Finn Ziegler

Uss carlson

de-9

Douglas Cady

Uss reeves

de-156/apd-52

Lou Grasek

uss decker

de-47

Donald Osborne

uss sellstrom

de/der-255

Richard Breil

uss smartt

de-257

George Hepinstall

uss spangenberg

de-223

William Trotz

uss gustafson

de-182

Leo Baehler

uss wyffels

de-6

Jerry Green

USS RILEY

DE-579

Conrad Lambruschini

USS SNOWDEN

DE-246

David Graybeal

USS COOLBAUGH

DE-217

Edwin White

USS CARROLL

DE-171

Robert Jones

uss brough

de-148

Ronald Zarem

Uss Oswald

de-767

Martin Klett

uss coates

de-685

James McHenry

Matt Becker

uss reuben james

de-153

Charlie Donachy

uss delong

de-684

Martin Newman

uss kirkpatrick

de/der-318

James Moore

USS SHEA

DM- 30

Donald Parsons

Surviving the Blitz

 Doreen Sakacs

USS BANGUST

DE-739

Edward Capraun

USS DONNELL

DE-56

Howard Tiedeman

USS MOORE

DE-240

Leonard Bulwicz

USS WILLIAM SEIVERLING

DE-441

Sam Higbee