Experience with death

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Jackson, Arthur Segment 3
[Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson served in the US Marine Corps as an automatic rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion,...
Shoens, Robert Segment 3
The English were incredibly grateful for the American presence. Robert Shoens and his crew stuck together when they got...
Rosen, Harold "Hank" Segment 3
After Harold Rosen was wounded, he went back into action. The shrapnel was embedded and it allowed him to serve, but...
LaPorta, Edward Segment 3
When Edward LaPorta landed in Oran all he could see was the German fortress which had two giant spotlights shining out...
Brooks, Howard Segment 3
On the evening of 28 February [Annotator's Note: 28 February 1942] they left the area they had been fighting in and...
Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 3
Rankin was initially stationed at Halesworth near Norwich then moved down to Boxted [Annotator’s Note: England]. By the...
Hochadel, Joseph Segment 3
Joseph Hochadel and his squad started down the road and a German tank began to shell them. It was traumatic and they...
Gravois, F.D. Segment 3
Another problem they had was when they 1st arrived on the island they ran out of food. When they landed they had the...
Tarrant, Eugene Segment 3
Tarrant would clean up the compartments of the mess attendants and things of that nature. He met a few Filipinos who...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 3
The guys who captured them were about in their 30s.The SS men put them into the field. Eventually the SS men circled...
Ross, Wilburn Segment 3
When Wilburn K. Ross landed on Sicily he landed from a Higgins boat. The beach being laden with obstacles and barbed...
Quintana, Ben Segment 3
Quintana had to board an Australian ship that left from American Samoa. On Tulagi, the landing was rougher than...
Tenney, Lester Segment 3
Those with dysentery didn't live very long. Dehydration, lack of food, lack of water, the sickness, it was awful....
Biddle, Melvin Segment 3
Biddle recalls finding the pilots from the downed JU 88 [Annotator’s Note: in Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge]....
Christie, Robert Segment 3
Robert Christie was assigned to a repo depot [Annotators Note: replacement depot] and shipped overseas. He was sent to...
Rosendahl, Robert Segment 3
When Robert Rosendahl and his fellow survivors were told to destroy their weapons they threw them all out into the bay...
Karr, Robert Segment 3
It was decided that the Laffey was going to head to Washington, DC and be tied up next to the Naval Gun Factory. The...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 3
James did not realize that he was shot right away. He knew he was hit but the pain did not register. He went down below...
Akins,Robert Segment 3
One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 3
The 100th Battalion joined the 442nd in Italy and was their first battalion. After the battle of Bruyeres, they took...
Rall, Gunther Segment 3
The Americans had very qualified airplanes in the P-51 and P-47. He remembered that the P-47 could keep a higher speed...
Bacon, Giles Segment 3
In 1940, the US Navy broke the Japanese code. On 27 November of 1941 Giles Bacon heard about a Japanese tanker that...
Wicker, Benjamin Segment 3
Wicker was not fast enough so his buddy would help him swim along in the water [Annotator’s Note: during the attack on...
Stratton, Donald Segment 3
Stratton recalls that none of the men were sleeping. The Arizona had reveille every morning at 5 AM. They ate breakfast...
Starnes, James Segment 3
They started back to Australia to begin the process of removing the dead from the ship [Annotator’s Note: from the USS...
Jefferson, Alexander Segment 3
Alexander Jefferson’s plane name was “Bubble Blue Subsoil” [Annotator’s Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...
Weber, Rosemarie Segment 3
After being liberated [Annotator’s Note: from Santo Tomas prison camp] people were allowed to return to the United...
Williams,Hershel "Woody" Segment 3
From late November of 1943 until Guam in 1944 Hershel Williams was engaged in a rigorous training regimen. When...
Goodrich, James Segment 3
James Goodrich thinks that people had a greater hatred for the Japanese than the Germans in America. He credits hearing...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 3
Each crew had a tent to themselves. In the 483rd Group [Annotator’s Note: Bombardment group] there were about 20 tents....
Billow, Harold Segment 4
Billow recalls his friend Robert "Sketch" Marigg telling him about the incident. Sketch saw everything from a bush on...
Wagner, Helen Segment 4
Wagner's other brother was also in the Pacific and would write to the family telling them that he was trying to meet up...
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...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 4
Lyle Bouck did not meet many civilians in Belgium. Someone higher up had gone through the towns and villages and...
Radford, Charles Segment 4
The Hill they were attacking [Annotator’s Note: in North Africa] was eventually cleared of Germans and the advancing...
Jackson, Arthur Segment 4
Most of the combat they [Annotators Note: Arthur Jackson and his fellow Marines of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine...

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