European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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[Annotators Note: There is dead air at the beginning of this segment. The segment actually begins at 1:04:45:500.] For...
Even though many of the German pilots were under-qualified the 109 [Annotator's Note: German Messerschmitt Me-109...
Mancel Kirk survived the war well. He did not get shell shock like some others did. The worst thing he suffered was the...
After the Bulge, Currey felt the rest of the war was routine. He had casualties, but nothing compared to the Bulge....
Barney Old Coyote’s crew was credited with sinking a submarine; it was not an individual accolade. The escort would...
Jackson applied at Pomona College using the GI Bill. He was accepted and eventually graduated from there. He was still...
Bell and his men got on the other side of the river and did not lose a single man. This was remarkable because each man...
Back in the United States the main role he had was to see that everybody's personnel records were in order before they...
The Germans had no idea what was going on. The worst part of the Battle of the Bulge for Biddle was when his friend was...
Robert Christie got orders to go back to the United States via a troop ship. The ship was named the Newburn Victory....
Freddie Ohr was assigned to the 52nd Fighter Group overseas. They were flying Spitfires. Ohr learned how to fly the...
Steve Pisanos decided to return to base. Fuel was an issue on missions. There were incidents of Spitfire pilots having...
Joseph Diamond was under mortar attack when he was wounded. A mortar shell exploded about 20 yards away and he felt a...
Leonard Spivey was hanging in his parachute and it was cold. Spivey was not uncomfortable because he thinks he had a...
John Noack notes that everything was fine that day. They had escort until they had to turn back. The fighters reached...
The Russians [Annotator's Note: who liberated Baynham and others at Stalag Luft I prisoner of war camp] had a tank with...
Alex Vraciu and the other members of his squadron were in their ready room. It was known that this was going to be...
Hawk describes his war wounds from shrapnel and having the pieces picked out of his skin. He describes the results of...
Milosevich did not know of the plan to pull back.The Germans flanked the position and captured hole after hole. They...
Lynn Compton remembers Doc Roe [Annotators Note: Company E medic Eugene Roe] as the medic who worked on him when he was...
The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...
Ardell Bollinger did not report back to base immediately. Bollinger still has shrapnel in his foot from when he was...
Baum remembers when they broke through Schweinheim they were moving pretty fast. By that point, the Germans knew they...
David Paul Spencer did not run into problems with anyone except Goring [Annotators Note: German Reichsmarschall Hermann...
Charles Scheffel did not know what to do when people start shooting at him but he realized that he had to do something...
Prior to Mann being called to see Colonel Sparks [Annotator's Note: US Army Brigadier General Felix Sparks], Mann had...
[Annotator's Note: for the first 35 seconds of this segment Rall is speaking German with someone in the room other than...
Galloway notes that as long as he was ahead of the German officers behind him he could sneak into a house. Galloway...
Richard Candelaria and his German guards were becoming friends. The guards gave him cognac. The guards put him in a van...
After they got away Corbin was told by his adjutant about Colonel Waters [Annotator's Note: US Army General John K....
Keema had flown back to back to back missions on eight, nine, and ten [Annotator’s Note: 8, 9, and 10 October 1943]....
Joseph Armanini tells a story about how the tail of a B-17 [Annotator’s Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber...
They would constantly catch rides until they got to Paris. The third day of travel they ended up in Paris. They ate...
Crump came back after the war to visit some of his buddies. He got there the very day they were floating the ship. They...
The Germans had a lot of horsedrawn equipment. Their tanks were good but they were too well engineered. To get a German...
Captain Cochran [Annotators Note: Raymond Zager’s company commander] ordered a crew of four jeeps to head back and pick...

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