Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO)

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F.M. Richard Simons was in the 3rd Platoon, 2nd Squad [Annotator's Note: of Company G, 3rd Battalion, 87th Mountain...
Norman Raner got off the ship in Oran [Annotator's Note: Oran, Algeria]. He went to an old school and billeted [...
John Shirley [Annotator’s Note: a sergeant with the 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division serving in Italy]...
It gradually sunk in to Rothacker Smith that he was a prisoner of war as he believed for the first couple of days in...
F.M. Richard Simons and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th...
Rothacker Smith's first interrogation was not bad. At the second stop of their march, Smith and his fellow prisoners...
Darrell Welch liked to say that he flew from England to North Africa and started a war. Rommel [Annotator's Note:...
Roger Shaw wanted to ship out on a vessel that traversed the Mississippi River frequently. This would better enable him...
The first couple of bombing missions William Fili was on were "milk runs" [Annotator's Note: slang term used by...
[Annotator’s Note: Can hear paper ruffling, seats squeaking, and people in the background throughout this segment.] On...
After flight school Darrell Welch joined the 27th Squadron, which is the oldest squadron, and the 1st Group, which is...
En route to their first German prison camp, Rothacker Smith and his fellow prisoners never discussed the possibility of...
Raymond Cauble's first mission was to a concentration camp in Yugoslavia. A general went with Cauble. They dropped...
Roger Shaw made a big mistake in his first opportunity as a ship's captain. He was assigned to an Army transport and...
Barney Hajiro and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team were attached to the 36th Infantry Division when he observed...
Once Darrell Welch decided to become a pilot, he decided it was a good calling. He never had any trouble in flight...
Leadership attitudes in Charles McGee's unit helped to form a bond between the men. McGee's first flight was in the PT-...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Darrell Welch to explain how missions escorting bombers went for him.] They...
In Vietnam, Van Barfoot found the news different from the perspective he got from it in the United States. He saw and...
Charles McGee liked the P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] because it had more speed...
Dr. Roscoe Brown's first mission was to a target in Austria. All of the mission targets looked the same from 25,000...
When Charles McGee first got to Italy, a lot of work and activity was based around survival. The men would improve...
When his crew got to Italy, Edwin Sved said they lived in tents in a farm field, and flew out of a makeshift airstrip...
William McCowen [Annotator's Note: a pilot in the US Air Force] flew 123s [Annotator's Note: Fairchild C-123 Provider...
Raymond Cauble just wanted to fly. There was a boy with them on the train to California. When they graduated, he went...
Darrell Welch was assigned to the 1st Fighter Group [Annotator's Note: 27th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group]. There...
The area Norman Raner was in was where the eight-inch howitzers [Annotator's Note: M1 eight inch, 203mm howitzer; heavy...
For Thomas Michael Holt, the worst part about being a prisoner of war was not having food. One American officer was a...
One morning a German officer who spoke English entered the room [Annotator's Note: in their barracks at Stalag III-B in...
Earl Ervin Clark [Annotator's Note: while serving as a supply officer for the 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th...
Joseph Hairston ended up at a camp 100 miles south of Tucson [Annotator's Note: Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona...
Frank Mancuso next went to Bessence [Annotators Note: unsure of spelling], France where his commanding officer gave him...
One of Ralph F. Lafferty's friends had been a ski instructor before the war. He was a wonderful skier, and they became...
There was a barber in Ivan Van der Pool's company [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment,...
Carl Peterson doesn't know how the war changed him. He has his own views on how things should be. His wife gets on him...

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