European Theater of Operations (ETO)

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Jerome Harold Black got a call from General Lee [Annotator's Note: US Army Lieutenant General John Clifford Hodges Lee...
[Annotator’s Note: There is a person off screen that relays the interviewer’s questions to the interviewee throughout...
After going ashore three months after D-Day, Robert Huber's unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 415th...
Donald Rudolph Carlson got involved with the 10th Mountain Division Association [Annotator's Note: National Association...
Donelson Houseman experienced a terrible event after he was liberated. He went into town and could see the tanks [...
In 1939, the Germans came into Poland and divided it into two parts. One was annexed by Germany and the other was...
Martin Richard was taken to Gross Tychow, Poland [Annotator's Note: Stalag Luft IV, Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now...
Irving Becker was assigned to Headquarters Detachment, 2nd Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Special Service Force. A book...
Robert Bueker flew 23 missions [Annotator's Note: with the 454th Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force]. [Annotator's Note...
[Annotator's Note: Dr. Roscoe Brown served in the USAAF as a fighter pilot in the 100th Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter...
Robert S. Rugeley moved into France to a holding area. He then went to Etampes [Annotator's Note: Étampes, France],...
Arriving in October 1944, Aubrey Bradley was assigned to the 401st Bombardment Group [Annotator's Note: 613th...
Dwain Luce feels that they must have loaded up in advance [Annotator's Note: loaded the gliders in preparation for the...
When Fred B. Morgan, Junior was working [Annotator's Note: as a medic with Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 505th...
Ryan O'Brien returned to his same crew after being hospitalized for an injury in a crash. His 35th mission was his last...
[Annotator's Note: Mark Gordon Hazard, Jr. served in the Army as the commanding officer of Company E, 2nd Battalion,...
Raymond Mason remembers after they got to Bastogne [Annotator’s Note: Bastogne, Belgium] the weather turned cold and...
John Rogers went back to France for the 50th Anniversary. Rogers went with his choir from the First Methodist Church in...
Romay Catherine Johnson Davis [Annotator's Note: a Private in the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the...
Cosmo Uttero returned to Normandy, France for the 70th anniversary of D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on...
Monroe S. Wolyn was impressed by the military power of the 8th Air Force. Wolyn’s plane was in the lead group [...
After nine months in a prison, William White Brainard [Annotator's Note: who was serving as a radioman on a Boeing B-17...
Donald W. Bertino fired his 90mm [Annotator's Note: 90mm antiaircraft gun] first in Dinant, Belgium. It was a hurry up...
Robert Kelso was born in Bristow, Oklahoma. He lived up on a farm owned by his grandparents. A few years after he was...
Joe Crandall’s unit [Annotator’s Note: the 635th Tank Destroyer Battalion] was pulled from the front and sent to Aachen...
John Witmeyer served in five armies of the US Army through six campaigns in the European Theater of World War 2. He had...
Bud Loring retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel. After World War 2 he joined a National Guard unit. He had a...
The Beetle Bailey strip was heavily influenced by Mort Walker's time in the Army during World War 2 and many of his...
Rosette Goldstein was taught to not talk to others while she was sheltered by the Martin family in France during the...
The underground had contacted Eva Nathanson's mother and told her they would protect them. During the winter of 1943,...
During a mission, Walter Bala's plane was hit over the target. A shell came through the plane and knocked out his...
As the winter of 1944 arrived, Don Carter [Annotator's Note: with Battery B, 44th Field Artillery Battalion, 4th...
[Annotator’s Note: Francis Dolsen is listening to another veteran and the interviewer speaking. The interviewer...

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