Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO)

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Crain, Joe Segment 4
When Crain got a chance to examine his boat he noticed there were about 50 to 75 marks in the steel where bullets had...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 4
[Annotators Note: Charles Scheffel served in the army as an infantry officer. He was sent to England with five other...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 4
When Executive Order 9066 [Annotator's Note: Executive Order 9066, or EO 9066 led the way for the internment of...
Jefferson, Alexander Segment 4
Alexander Jefferson came in the middle of the Tuskegee program. The first program was March 1942 and the last class was...
Kassal, Bentley Segment 4
Kassal remembers making it to Palermo, Italy after three to four weeks with the 12th Tactical Air Command. He was in...
Ehlers, Walter Segment 4
Ehlers, the interviewer, and a third party are talking during a brief break they took when the interviewer’s cell phone...
Baker, Vernon Segment 5
Vernon Baker arrived in Italy on around 28 June 1944. His Medal of Honor action did not happen until the following year...
Finkbeiner, Theodore Segment 5
Theodore Finkbeiner went on a patrol to snatch a prisoner one night and came to a bridge that had been blown out. They...
Phillips, Henry Segment 5
[Annotators Note: Henry Phillips served in Company M, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division.] By...
Inouye, Daniel Segment 5
Inouye helped liberate a village as well. One of the churches in the village had a high steeple. He asked the priest if...
LaPorta, Edward Segment 5
When Edward LaPorta was in training all of the guys in the outfit were very good friends. After going through their...
Ross, Wilburn Segment 5
Wilburn K. Ross had his molars knocked out in France by shrapnel. His company commander had sent him and about eight of...
Old Coyote, Barney Segment 5
Barney Old Coyote’s unit received Presidential Unit Citations for the job they did in bombing bases in the...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 5
John Vessey learned a lot from his 34th Infantry Division leaders. His experience in North Africa colored his outlook...
Doi, Michael Segment 5
Michael Doi does not recall hearing about the death of President Roosevelt. Doi made a lot of Caucasian friends on the...
Dennis, David Segment 5
[Annotators Note: David Dennis served as a radio operator in Company D, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 5
Freddie Ohr flew in a P-64 and a P-35. He cannot find the P-64 in modern books about fighters. Both were forerunners to...
Holloman, William Segment 5
A friend of Holloman’s in a MATS [Annotator's Note: Military Air Transport Service] unit needed an operations officer....
Crain, Joe Segment 5
The day after the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot [Annotators Note: the Battle of the Philippine Sea] Alex Vraciu was...
Crain, Joe Segment 5
The Germans would use flares at night and drop them over the American convoy. At night this would illuminate the fleet...
Scheffel, Charles Segment 5
The French Foreign Legion decided to fight with the Allies. Charles Scheffel stayed in the tunnel in Algiers that night...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 5
Kanaya felt that living during the Depression years and learning to live under those conditions, working and living on...
Kassal, Bentley Segment 5
Kassal recalls the 12th Tactical Air Command's headquarters were setup at Caserta, just north of Naples. They were...
Baker, Vernon Segment 6
Vernon Baker continues to describe his Medal of Honor actions in Italy. He began cutting wire on the hill. The wire was...
Finkbeiner, Theodore Segment 6
Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...
Phillips, Henry Segment 6
[Annotators note: Henry Phillips was the operations officer in 3rd Battalion Headquarters, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th...
Inouye, Daniel Segment 6
Inouye respects the United States because they were able to say after the war that it was wrong that Japanese-Americans...
LaPorta, Edward Segment 6
Edward LaPorta does not recall anything special about the battles at Gafsa and El Guettar. Battles are all the same....
Ross, Wilburn Segment 6
Wilburn K. Ross stayed behind because he felt that he was able to stop the Germans. He had confidence in his ability to...
Old Coyote, Barney Segment 6
They [Annotators Note: Barney Old Coyote and his older bother] went to gunnery school and did not know where they were...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 6
[Annotators Note: John Vessey served in the army as the First Sergeant of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery,...
Doi, Michael Segment 6
Michael Doi believes that the war did not change his personality. Doi was an athlete in high school. He was a pole...
Dennis, David Segment 6
David Dennis was not there [Annotators Note: on a work detail from Stalag II-B] too long. He had a run in with one of...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 6
Freddie Ohr had an aerial photographer in his group who had just come out of the photography school in Denver. He asked...
Holloman, William Segment 6
Holloman returned to active duty with the stipulation that he be retained for five years so he could retire. The army...
Crain, Joe Segment 6
Alex Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer] out over the Japanese...

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