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  • Zawada, Robert Segment 12

    Zawada said the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] did not look that bad.

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 13

    Zawada realized the mission was a failure when they were under tank fire outside of Hammelburg and when he drove the half-track back to the column

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 14

    Zawada tried to run when he got hit, but he no idea how badly injured he was [Annotator's Note: during the Hammelburg raid as a member of Task

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 15

    Zawada was trying to figure out what he was going to do [Annotator's Note: during the Hammelburg raid as a member of Task Force Baum].

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 16

    Zawada was in the camp for about a week before the American army liberated the camp [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war/POW camp outside Hammel

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 17

    Zawada regrets not finding out who the others prisoners were in his ward.

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 2

    Robert Zawada was 16 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He graduated from high school in 1942.

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 3

    Robert Zawada was assigned to the 20th Armored Division.

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 4

    Zawada's first time in combat was in Alsace-Lorraine. In an infantry column, the tanks were always in the lead.

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 5

    Wojiy was very paranoid and took the civilians back to the lieutenant [Annotator's Note: during fighting in the Alsace-Lorraine region of Fran

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 6

    When they left the village [Annotator's Note: during fighting in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France], Zawada rode in the turret with the lie

  • Zawada, Robert Segment 7

    Zawada recalls the battle at the Shafenburg bridge just before the Hammelburg Raid. His platoon remained in the town of Shafenburg.

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