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  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 1

    Clinton Gardner was born in New York City on December 26, 1922.

  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 2

    Clinton Gardner learned in May 1944 that he and other officers would be sent to a special camp to learn the details of the landing on Omaha Beach.

  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 3

    Clinton Gardner witnessed a huge explosion at 5am in the afternoon [Annotator’s Note: on June 6th, 1944 Normandy D-Day].

  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 4

    Clinton Gardner went back to England and stayed in the field hospital. He had an operation using skin from his leg to close the wound on his head.

  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 5

    Clinton Gardner had been in Bastogne a week before it was captured because his outfit was helping with the Red Ball Express to supply the city.

  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 6

    Clinton Gardner witnessed the liberation of Buchenwald and noted there were close to 55,000 to 56,000 deaths in the camp.

  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 7

    Clinton Gardner and the armed forces with him were so well trained that he does not remember being afraid when they were shipped to Normandy on Jun

  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 8

    Clinton Gardner never thought of his own death but watched a few hundred men die.

  • Gardner, Clinton Segment 9

    Clinton Gardner notes that Elie Wiesel and his father were in the little camp at Buchenwald.

  • Garten, Perry Becoming a Soldier and Deploying to India

    Perry Garten was drafted and sent to Fort Leavenworth for processing. He was then shipped to Bowman Field near Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Garten, Perry Chindits, Gurkas and Commando Commanders

    Perry Garten got along well with the Chindits. They were professional and spoke English. The Gurkhas had a unique knife.

  • Garten, Perry Early Life

    Perry L. Garten was born in November 1917 in Peculiar, Missouri. He grew up in Missouri and graduated from high school there in 1935.

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