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  • Christie, Robert Segment 2

    A year after enlisting as a private Robert Christie graduated from OCS [Annotators Note: Officer Candidate School] with most of his fellow classmat

  • Christie, Robert Segment 3

    Robert Christie was assigned to a repo depot [Annotators Note: replacement depot] and shipped overseas.

  • Christie, Robert Segment 4

    Robert Christie was in combat for a few weeks before his tank was hit. They had to bail out of their tank.

  • Christie, Robert Segment 5

    Robert Christie notes that the armored tank units worked with the armored infantry.

  • Christie, Robert Segment 6

    Robert Christie notes that in the war all of the high philosophical things go out of the window.

  • Christie, Robert Segment 7

    Robert Christie got orders to go back to the United States via a troop ship. The ship was named the Newburn Victory.

  • Christie, Robert Segment 8

    Robert Christie believes that it is very important to document history.

  • Chuck, Harris Segment 1

    Chuck was born in Long Island, New York in 1917. He believes that things were going better during the Great Depression then they are now.

  • Chuck, Harris Segment 2

    Chuck was incredibly upset about Pearl Harbor. He had no idea even after Pearl Harbor that 5000 Japanese Marines were going to take the island.

  • Chuck, Harris Segment 3

    Chuck was able to see his Ford Coupe being driven around the island by the Japanese from a window in the church they were all being kept in [Annota

  • Chuck, Harris Segment 4

    Chuck states that the guys in the Japanese army at Osaka were pretty good guys.

  • Chuck, Harris Segment 5

    Chuck recalls being stripped naked with his hands locked behind his head.

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