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Oral history interview with Roger Neighborgall

Oral History | Digitized | Accession Number: 2014.56.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0749

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    Oral history interview with Roger Neighborgall

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    Interview Summary
    Roger Neighborgall, born on September 13, 1923, discusses his childhood in Garrett, Indiana; hearing about European events and Hitler on the radio while in high school; attending Indiana University and the University of West Virginia with his older sister; enlisting in the army at the age of eighteen against the wishes of his father, a World War I veteran; the beginning of his time in the army and joining the 5th Ranger Battalion; his preparation for and participation in D-Day; his battalion’s assignment to General Patton’s Third Army and conducting reconnaissance missions in France; playing soccer and football with local people; learning about the rest of the war in Europe by reading the Stars and Stripes newspaper; his part in the Battle of the Bulge; his temporary assignment to the Monuments Men in Bavaria during April 1945; hearing other soldiers’ reactions to seeing concentration camps; the occupation in Germany; returning to the US; his postwar life and international travels; his thoughts on The Monuments Men book and film; and his feelings on how much information to reveal when talking about his war experiences.
    Interviewee
    Roger Neighborgall
    Interviewer
    Ina Navazelskis
    Date
    interview:  2014 May 02

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    Extent
    2 digital file : WAV.

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    Provenance
    Ina Navazelskis, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch, conducted the oral history interview with Roger Neighborgall on May 2, 2014.
    Funding Note
    The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
    Record last modified:
    2023-11-16 08:04:37
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