Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO)

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Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 3
The 100th Battalion joined the 442nd in Italy and was their first battalion. After the battle of Bruyeres, they took...
Brown, Roscoe Segment 3
Dr. Roscoe Brown’s first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...
Jefferson, Alexander Segment 3
Alexander Jefferson’s plane name was “Bubble Blue Subsoil” [Annotator’s Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...
Martello, Dominic Segment 3
Martello learned that when you were in the sand and going fast, the wheel of the halftrack could be turned, but the...
Kassal, Bentley Segment 3
Kassal was sent back to the United States for five weeks before finally making it overseas. They traveled through...
Ehlers, Walter Segment 3
After the war ended in Africa they continued training in the desert. The men were given passes to go into Tunisia but...
Chaisson, Roland Segment 4
They retreated about eight or ten miles before they decided to put up a fight [Annotator’s Note: during the Battle of...
Radford, Charles Segment 4
The Hill they were attacking [Annotator’s Note: in North Africa] was eventually cleared of Germans and the advancing...
Baker, Vernon Segment 4
The interviewer notes that in the last segment Vernon Baker made a comment about an event that was his initiation into...
Finkbeiner, Theodore Segment 4
Sicily was an easier operation than Italy. Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd...
Phillips, Henry Segment 4
[Annotators Note: Henry Phillips served as an officer in Company M, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry...
Inouye, Daniel Segment 4
The mountain was at the opening of a valley. It was an important valley because of troop movements and positioning. The...
Barfoot, Van Segment 4
Barfoot grew up on a farm and his family was all on the farm. They grew cotton and corn and made a living during the...
McGee, Charles Segment 4
When McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work was done trying to improve the living conditions. They still operated...
Nerison, James "Jim" Segment 4
One night when they were after a target, the skipper dropped this white handkerchief and James Nerison heard him give...
LaPorta, Edward Segment 4
Edward LaPorta was a halftrack driver during his first battle. He remembers that they had nothing to fight with except...
Blonder, Erwin Segment 4
Blonder recalls the tactics that the Germans used in France. They would use small scale hit and run tactics. They could...
Hochadel, Joseph Segment 4
Joseph Hochadel was told where the wounded guys were. The GIs would direct Hochadel to where the wounded were and then...
Ross, Wilburn Segment 4
It was dark and they were trying to figure a way out [Annotators Note: after landing on Anzio]. They stumbled upon some...
Old Coyote, Barney Segment 4
Twenty minutes out of his home base and Barney Old Coyote was in enemy territory. is first mission was to Rouen, France...
Peterson, Carl Segment 4
In Sicily they were in a mountainous area. They made an assault on a hill but the Germans were well dug in and beat the...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 4
[Annotators Note: John Vessey served in the army as the First Sergeant of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery,...
Doi, Michael Segment 4
While Michael Doi was overseas his family and everyone he knew from Oxnard [Annotators Note: Oxnard, California] was...
Dennis, David Segment 4
David Dennis went with his unit to New York where they got on the Queen Mary. Teddy Roosevelt was the commander of the...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 4
Freddie Ohr was given a depth perception test. The depth perception test was kind of tricky. It entailed having Ohr...
Holloman, William Segment 4
When they got overseas to Italy, black and white [Annotator’s Note: African American and Caucasian], they were a team....
Crain, Joe Segment 4
Alex Vraciu scored nine aerial victories during his first tour. His first kill was a Zero at Tarawa while flying with...
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 "Charlie" 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...
Brown, Roscoe Segment 4
To Dr. Roscoe Brown strafing missions were more dangerous than bomber escort missions because they had a liquid cooled...
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...
Martello, Dominic Segment 4
A lot of times they would go at night and capture a German guard on guard duty and put a bayonet to him. Then you'd...
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...
Chaisson, Roland Segment 5
Chaisson volunteered for the army when he was 17. He didn't like the navy and the Marine Corps sounded too tough for...

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