Experience behind enemy lines

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Raymond VanDuzer then went to the Hurtgen Forest. VanDuzer really had a lot of wounded there. VanDuzer never thought he...
After 49 days and three ships, and enduring the most horror and terror and fear Ben Skardon had ever known, he was...
David Roderick saw German fortifications that were made to look like homes or barns and one town was only made of...
Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. encountered German fighter jets. The Germans tried to surprise attack them, but the Americans...
A.C. Thomas was part of the liberation of POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] in Lindberg [Annotator’s Note:...
Starting in December 1943, John Smith was on New Guinea preparing for combat in the Admiralty Islands. They landed on...
For Robert Fitz, it was an honor to serve three years in combat areas, and is grateful that he lived through it. He...
It took them 12 days to get back to California [Annotator's Note: returning from Japan after the war]. Emmett Kaylor...
Wallace Jeffery and the 300 or so troops in his unit got together after Paris. [Annotator’s Note: the unit was the...
David Heath found out he was behind Japanese lines. To evade the 800 soldiers, the Marines walked behind them, up a...
James Salerno stayed in San Diego for about four or five months. From there they went to Pearl Harbor where they saw...
Richard Miralles thought Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] was miserable. They had mud on...
Benjamin Carson received ten days leave after the Makin Island raid. He was billeted at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in...
Thomas Edgar Morgan, Sr. was discharged from the Marines as a Sergeant. While fighting on Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note...
From the New Hebrides, Charles Davis said they [Annotator's Note: the USS Helena (CL-50)] proceeded with two aircraft...
Joseph Goble and the 7th Marine Regiment [Annotator's Note: Goble served as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company B, 1st...
[Annotator's Note: James Gulotta served in the Army as an intelligence and reconnaissance team leader in the 21st...
On his first day at sea, Robert Powers got seasick. One of his friends, Ned Meloney, played for the 49ers [Annotator's...
Seymour Mermelstein was on night patrols most of the time and says they are all pretty much the same. He went out on...
In March 1944, [Annotator's Note: after completing training with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)] Helias...
Ed Tunnicliff was assigned to another tank. A couple days later, after they got knocked out, he thought he was the only...
Ben Skardon has ten percent disability because of his feet, as a result of beri beri. A change in his diet helped him...
George Haines says that the equipment supply chain worked well. They would often be short of the clips for the Thompson...
They [Annotator's Note: Floyd Dumas and the English soldier he had escaped the prisoner of war camp in Cinecitta, Italy...
[Annotator's Note: Bud Loring was badly burned after being shot down over France. Locals had taken him into a house to...
Most of the combat they [Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson and his fellow Marines of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th...
Lloyd Reese was the bombardier on a Consolidated B-24 Liberator taking part in Operation Tidal Wave over Ploiești,...
Edward "Babe" Heffron jumped into Holland and spent over 78 days there. The jump into the drop zone meant kill or be...
Raymond Burchell returned to England [Annotator’s Note: from combat in France]. They were brought to an airfield and...
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...
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Robert Rans about what sounds he heard after being hit by enemy fire.] Robert...
When Melbourne Sanford Courtney 's company [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th...
Bruce LaRose [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, veteran of North Africa...
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...

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