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A lot of men are killed because of carelessness. You get tired of lying in a hole. A cook got drunk and was then sent...
The weather was rough when Joseph Alter crossed the Channel [Annotator's Note: the English Channel on 6 June 1944]. It...
[Annotator's Note: On 13 July 1944, Dwain Luce and the 320th Glider Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division...
Edward "Babe" Heffron jumped into Holland and spent over 78 days there. The jump into the drop zone meant kill or be...
During the invasion of Normandy, Clinton Riddle and most of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment landed in British Horsa...
Wayne Pierce returned to England after Normandy. The regiment stayed there until September when the paratroopers...
James Livaudais flew from England to Holland on 17 September 1944. Flying at about 500 feet at 150 miles per hour,...
Frank Fontana went into Holland then Belgium. He was a supply sergeant for the whole outfit [Annotator's Note: 93rd...
Irwin Schneider arrived at Hollandia just after the landings there. There was no opposition to the assault. He had not...
Jack Carver had some rotten adventures during the war. There were two particularly bad ones. As he approached a...
Emory Maurice Ornelles [Annotator's Note: in the 90th Infantry Division] was working with tanks when a driver asked him...
Edwin Slomka was in the hospital until June [Annotator's Note: June 1945], when he was shipped down to the George...
It was dark when Henry Malec was removed by stretcher from the cellar where he had been treated after being wounded at...
Walter Sapp was in a very difficult battle at the Remagen Bridge [Annotator's Note: Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen,...
James Muri and his crew got on the first B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber] they could...
John "Jack" Raquepau was just bombing in the Gilbert [Annotator's Note: Gilbert Islands] and Marshall Islands [...
Another incident James Morehead felt worth recounting happened when he was flying a protection flight while other...
Paul Baughman recovered from his wounds and went back into action [Annotator's Note: with the 28th Infantry Division]....
Joseph Alter lost men in his platoon. He lost two men in the Hurtgen Forest [Annotator's Note: Battle of Hürtgen Forest...
Robert Stephen Bebko got to the Hurtgen Forest [Annotator's Note: Battle of Hürtgen Forest, 19 September 1944 to 10...
He had had a few experiences with combat when Clyde Kenney's division [Annotator's Note: Kenney was a member of Company...
William Pena remembers how his battalion commander was a gung-ho, brave, and tall man who refused to stay at the rear...
William Pena followed a trail through the woods and kept encountering groups of men asking for the two platoons on the...
In all the time Wayne Peer spent overseas performing infiltration missions, the platoon [Annotator's Note: I...
On 7 December 1941, Ray Emory stayed on his gun all day and all night, without relief. After he saw the USS Oklahoma (...
Paula Knobler and her group of fellow Holocaust survivors found out from Russian soldiers that help was available for...
[Annotator's Note: 1st Lieutenant John Marr served as a platoon leader in Company G, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment...
While approaching Wana Draw on Okinawa, George Peto noticed some movement in the brush off to his left. He realized...
Roy Joseph Moss was involved in many patrols while the American tanks were mired down in the mud [Annotator's Note:...
The following day [Annotator's Note: the day after they left Myitkyinā], Gabriel Kinney and the other remaining...
William Pena remembers how after suffering heavy casualties his battalion was diminished to the size of practically one...
Donald Herbert Shown and his ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] completed delivery of atomic bomb [...
Vernon Schmidt [Annotator's Note: a replacement on his way to be assigned to a regiment] passed through the ruins of...
Thomas Bondola received his training with a regiment in his division [Annotator’s Note: 26th Infantry Division, no...
[Interviewer asks about the planning of the operation at Los Baños Internment Camp, Los Baños, Philippines] Henry...

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