Interactions with superiors

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Ohr, Freddie Segment 10
Freddie Ohr was sitting around in a tent for two and a half days. Sandborne informed him that there would not be a test...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 10
The thing Steve Pisanos thinks about the most from the war was when he crash landed in France. When he arrived at the...
Karr, Robert Segment 10
It turned out that a small piece of shrapnel had severed Burgess's spinal chord. Burgess was 18 years old. Karr had...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 10
The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...
Scheffel, Charles "Charlie" Segment 10
They were attempting to cross a river in order to capture an airfield that was suspected of housing German transport...
Mann, Karl Segment 10
Mann went to the enclosure where the camp prisoners were located. The prisoners were rejoicing about their liberation....
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 10
Of the 3 guys that went with Kanaya to bring back the wounded, one was a Caucasian from a supporting company. They...
Hairston, Joseph Segment 10
Hairston notes that there was a lot of competition between the artillery batteries [Annotator’s Note: during combat in...
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 10
Baptiste feels that a lot of talent was lost by the navy segregating them. He used to talk to his officers about it.He...
Standifer, Leon Segment 10
Standifer tried to use a credit card on one of his return trips to Germany in 1996 and the man who he was trying to buy...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 10
Childers was placed in a basket and hoisted onto the deck of the destroyer that had picked him and his crew up. He was...
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 10
James Smith watched the battle [Annotators Note: the battle of Gavutu] from Tulagi. [Annotators Note: Smith gets off...
Baker, Vernon Segment 11
On 13 January 1997 Vernon Baker flew to Washington DC with his family. They went into the East Room of the White House...
Ford, Richard Segment 11
Richard Ford was pinned down by a German machine gun. He was up against a hedgerow so tight that he could not move. The...
Murphy, Robert Segment 11
[Annotators Note: The interviewer mentions to Robert Murphy that he may be doing a series on great military leaders...
Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 11
The local principal got him to come up there and then teachers started asking him to speak to their classes. The...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 11
The next morning Alexander Vraciu and the other guerillas headed north up the national highway. They took a bugler and...
Lansford, William Segment 11
William Lansford was attached to the 27th Regiment [Annotators Note: Headquarters, 27th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine...
Renstrom, Keith Segment 11
Renstrom discusses what it was like to train soldiers. One time he witnessed a soldier giving bayonet instruction to...
Dennis, David Segment 11
Finally a jeep showed up with a lieutenant in it who told them [Annotators Note: David Dennis and his fellow POWs] when...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 11
Freddie Ohr found out it was that bullet that ricocheted off his helmet and went into the cushion. His leader made a...
Karr, Robert Segment 11
Karr believed that Admiral Becton [Annotator's Note: F. Julian Becton was the Commander of the Laffey] was a very, very...
Greer, Richard Segment 11
While Richard Greer and his fellow Marines were on Guadalcanal they were bombed almost constantly. They were hit at ten...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 11
Delewski still hears from different people from the Laffey. After the war he took advantage of the G.I. Bill and got...
Ward, Harold Segment 11
It was amazing to Harold Ward to see how quickly they dumped stuff after the war was over. They were heading back to...
Baum, Abraham "Abe" Segment 11
A Serbian doctor in the hospital hid Baum. By this point, he had discarded his dog tags because if the Germans had...
Mann, Karl Segment 11
Many of the I Company GIs were upset at what they had seen, some more so than others.The I Company commander "lost it."...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 11
Kanaya never tried to escape until after they left camp in Poland in January of 1945. That is when opportunities came...
Armanini, Joseph Segment 11
Joseph Armanini is most proud of the moment he met Gabby Gabreski and how Gabreski congratulated him on how well he...
Childers, Lloyd Segment 11
The navy commander leading the Hornet's [Annotator's Note: USS Hornet, CV-8] air group was responsible for the deaths...
Kleiss, Norman "Dusty" Segment 11
[Annotators Note: Norman J. Kleiss, known as Dusty, was a dive bomber pilot in Scouting Squadron 6 (VS-6) flying from...
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 11
For the first battle of the Matanikau, James Smith and the Raiders were going to go up the river and 1st Battalion, 7th...
Zawada, Robert Segment 12
Zawada said the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] did not look that bad. He remembers that there were about...
Murphy, Robert Segment 12
Robert Murphy had a lot of postwar contact with General James Gavin. In Murphy’s opinion the reason many high ranking...
Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 12
Jack feels that World War II is important enough that they shouldn't take it out of the history books. He felt it was...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 12
During one of his trips back to the United States Alexander Vraciu was offered the opportunity to fly the Zero [...

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