Aaron May joined the US Army on March 4, 1942. His initial boot camp training was at Camp Chaffee, Arkansas. While serving as an enlisted man, he requested and received a commission in the Army as a Warrant Officer. He attended Officer's school at Camp Lee, Virginia. May was an infantryman with the 68th Infantry Battalion, 14th Army Division. He saw military action at Marseilles, Cannes, and in Alsace-Lorraine, France. He was present at the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany and the military campaign at Haguenau Forest. May was discharged from the US Army at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Transcript Number 087
Title: Aaron May: Remembering World War II
Interviewee: Aaron May
Interviewer: Paul Zarbock
Date of Interview: October 2, 2001
Location of Interview: Wilmington, N.C. 
Description: 1 Mini-DV Cassette Tape; sd., col.+ 1 VHS Cassette Tape
Documentation: 1 Typed Transcript
Series: World War II Veterans Oral History Preservation Project
Series: Voices of Experience