European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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Ford, Richard Segment 3
Richard Ford waited about three months for a boat back to the United States. Germans were sinking boats in the Gulf of...
Onesi, Anthony "Tony" Segment 3
Onesi and the other waist gunner were taken to a German hospital, he was wounded by a machine gun, but the Germans did...
Murphy, Robert Segment 3
[Annotators Note: Robert Murphy served in the army as a paratrooper in Company A, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...
Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 3
On 16 December 1944, the Germans started the biggest battle of offensive fighting in the world's history, the Battle of...
Duchossois, Richard Segment 3
Richard Duchossois and the 610th Tank Destroyer Battalion were attached to the 80th Infantry Division at the time of...
Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 3
Rankin was initially stationed at Halesworth near Norwich then moved down to Boxted [Annotator’s Note: England]. By the...
Kirk, Mancel Segment 3
Mancel Kirk and his unit continued to move up toward Pisa, Italy. They were moving pretty good did not have much...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 3
The guys who captured them were about in their 30s.The SS men put them into the field. Eventually the SS men circled...
Currey, Francis S. Segment 3
Currey picks back up on his Medal of Honor action story from the point in time right after he fired on the tank with...
Old Coyote, Barney Segment 3
[Annotators Note: Barney Old Coyote’s daughter steps in and asks a few questions.] The government had prohibited the...
Jackson, Donald Segment 3
They moved on south into Bavaria. The war ended while they were in Rosenheim.When they went overseas they were told not...
Bell, Bryan Segment 3
Bell's initial experience in England consisted mainly of training and trying to avoid boredom. They were gradually...
Schmedemann, Keith Segment 3
Their strategy didn't work because they couldn't bend around Rocherath-Krinkelt [Annotator’s Note: During the Battle of...
Doi, Michael Segment 3
Michael Doi did not experience and maltreatment or racism even when he went to the South but his daughter did. After...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 3
Biddle recalls finding the pilots from the downed JU 88 [Annotator’s Note: in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge]....
Christie, Robert Segment 3
Robert Christie was assigned to a repo depot [Annotators Note: replacement depot] and shipped overseas. He was sent to...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 3
Freddie Ohr’s friend Leon asked him to go with him into the Air Corps. Ohr walked into a storefront that had been...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 3
Steve Pisanos got his private pilot’s license. He studied from a booklet he had picked up while visiting a Greek Air...
Diamond, Joseph Segment 3
There was a guy in Joseph Diamond's outfit [Annotators Note: the 413th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division] that...
Woods, Edward Segment 3
When Woods would go into Times Square young servicemen would give them trouble about why they weren't in the service....
Spivey, Leonard Segment 3
Leonard Spivey enjoyed his baptism by fire on his first mission. Their first mission was on 22 June and they went to...
Noack, John Segment 3
John Noack called the base and they sent some trucks in to pick them up. They were in a new base which was a mudhole....
Baynham, James Segment 3
The only thing Baynham recalls about any of his missions except for Dessau was the flak.The day after he was shot down...
Crain, Joe Segment 3
Alex Vraciu wanted to fly fighters. If he had not been given fighters when he was going through training at Corpus...
Hawk, John Segment 3
Hawk says that the thing he wondered about the most prior to combat was what kind of officers he would have. He says...
Milosevich, Risto Segment 3
Milosevich was informed that he had a daughter while he was still aboard ship to England. He thought about his child...
Compton, Lynn "Buck" Segment 3
Lynn Compton went to England on the Queen Elizabeth ship with thousands of troops. He joined the Easy Company outfit...
Crain, Joe Segment 3
Crain was 1 of the seaman in the boat. They were on a transport ship originally. When Crain was on the transport ship...
Bollinger, Ardell Segment 3
Ardell Bollinger arrived in Europe in July 1943. He was shot down 23 September 1944. Bollinger’s first mission was a “...
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 3
Baum recalls an event that took place at the Maginot Line. Harold Cohen had just taken over the battalion. He argued...
Spencer, David Segment 3
David Paul Spencer’s first day of combat was not too eventful. There was a pretty decent firefight and his unit had a...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 3
When Charles Scheffel became a platoon leader, he used all of the ammunition that they could teaching his men about...
Mann, Karl Segment 3
A few days after arriving in Naples, Italy, Mann was shipped up to Anzio on an LST [Annotator's Note: Landing Ship,...
Weinart, John Segment 3
John Weinart crossed the Rhine River and headed into southern Germany. They would frequently ride on tanks. Weinart...
Cokinos, Michael Segment 3
The Hartz Mountains [Annotators Note: also referred to as the Harz Mountains, Germany] contained many Hitler Youth...
Rall, Gunther Segment 3
The Americans had very qualified airplanes in the P-51 and P-47. He remembered that the P-47 could keep a higher speed...

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