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When Theodore Finkbeiner landed on Anzio Beach he and the other landing troops were bombed and strafed. Company G [...
Clinton Gardner and the armed forces with him were so well trained that he does not remember being afraid when they...
When Henry Phillips left the hospital after three weeks of recovering from his third wound he boarded a replacement...
Kalil did not think he was going to survive after seeing all the Germans in the town. All he remembers from getting hit...
Major Brubaker [Annotator's Note: spelling unknown] operated on Lou Brissie. Brissie thought his entire squad had been...
Joseph Diamond was under mortar attack when he was wounded. A mortar shell exploded about 20 yards away and he felt a...
[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...
Hawk describes his war wounds from shrapnel and having the pieces picked out of his skin. He describes the results of...
James recalls not having enough sense to be scared. He focused on doing his job and getting it done correctly. He...
Lynn Compton remembers Doc Roe [Annotators Note: Company E medic Eugene Roe] as the medic who worked on him when he was...
They [Annotator’s Note: the dive bombers] would cut the engines if nothing came back from the PBY's and call it a day [...
Lyle Bouck was all over the place during the fighting, but does not recall where he was or when. Kalil [Annotators Note...
Clinton Gardner never thought of his own death but watched a few hundred men die. Gardner got sick and threw up around...
Lou Brissie was taken into surgery on 11 December [Annotator's Note: 11 December 1944]. After the operation he returned...
Onesi never returned to England to see his old base. He has no desire to go back, that chapter of his life is over. He...
[Annotators Note: This segment begins with the interviewer brushing off Robert Murphy’s coat]. After the big battle on...
On Tarawa there were Japanese bunkers everywhere. They were right on the other side of the wall. They had firing ports...
At Lohr, they lost their 1st tank from a German Panzerfaust. Baum says they did not have time to think about it, they...
Charles Scheffel had about 5,000 dollars in a musette bag. He got into a jeep with a driver who was from New York City...
Alexander Jefferson went into Stalag Luft III with about 75 to 100 prisoners. The rooms were crowded so they turned the...
Earnest tried to get a lead on the cruiser so he could drop his torpedo [Annotator’s Note: after being hit during the...
One ensign did bail out. He was picked up by a Japanese destroyer. He was interrogated, according to testimony from the...
The guard spoke to Lyle Bouck in German and stuck the barrel of his weapon against Bouck's stomach. Bouck heard a snap...
The Germans repaired Kalil's mouth and jaw. He did not mind it. He remembers the worst part was them cutting him open...
When Gravois landed on Saipan they were being shelled. Gravois lost 2 men when they landed. They were put into the line...
Lynn Compton never found Lieutenant Dike [Annotators Note: Norman S. Dike] when he went to search for him while his men...
The next bad thing to happen was when Childers tried to fire at a Zero [Annotator's Note: Japanese fighter aircraft],...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Philips was wounded by artillery fire on 25 September 1944.] Philips was in the 97th General...
After a little more training in Africa, Calvin Summers crossed the Mediterranean and landed in Naples while the Allies...
After completing basic training in the Army, Richard Hebert, Sr. was shipped to California and then boarded a troop...
Sterling Cale fought in Vietnam. He was in Da Nang during the Tet Offensive. Cale had a nice home that was protected by...
Morris Semiatin was born in June 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland. He knew in the late 1930s that there was war going on. He...
Lowell Rodrigue received more training and was assigned to a unit that was on a Merchant Marine ship. They went to...
After over a week in combat on a mountain ridge, William Garbo and the men of G Troop, 2nd Squadron, 112th Cavalry...
Harold Baumgarten continues his account of what he did on D-Day at Dog Green Sector [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France...
Tom Quigley and his men watched their comrades try and make their way up Hill 192 under heavy German fire, and saw a...

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