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Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 4
Rankin's squadron [Annotator's Note: 61st Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group] had an apartment in London that the men...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 4
Biddle was not allowed to return to combat because he was being put up for the Medal of Honor. He was told that he had...
Weinart, John Segment 4
John Weinart notes that the Virgin Mary prayer card experience is in the book that he wrote. The Bronze Star that...
Perrett, Marvin Segment 4
After the invasion they left Southern France [Annotator's Note: Perrett means Northern France, in June 1944] and...
Phillips, Henry Segment 5
[Annotators Note: Henry Phillips served in Company M, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division.] By...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 5
The intelligence was good for the southern France operation. The intelligence officers claimed to know the rank and...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 5
Steve Pisanos scored his first victory on 21 May [Annotators Note: 21 May 1943]. They had taken bombers to Frankfurt,...
Hawk, John Segment 5
After leaving the aid station [Annotator’s Note: near Chambois, France on August 20, 1944] Hawk was looked at by...
Thatcher, David "Dave" Segment 5
Thatcher was able to get his tool kit from the plane. Later in the morning there was a Chinese underground member who...
Cokinos, Michael Segment 5
Michael Cokinos was only in charge of Russian prisoners for a short amount of time. The Russians were prisoners of the...
Perrett, Marvin Segment 5
They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: the crew of the USS Bayfield, near Okinawa] for about twelve days...
Carrington, James Segment 5
James Carrington's war started on 7 December 1941. He was a prisoner for two years. On 3 February 1945 he moved into...
Lazarick, Len Segment 6
On the morning of the 21st they were ordered to go down Tombstone Ridge and head west to the village of Nishibaru....
Phillips, Henry Segment 6
[Annotators note: Henry Phillips was the operations officer in 3rd Battalion Headquarters, 47th Infantry Regiment, 9th...
Ross, Wilburn Segment 6
Wilburn K. Ross stayed behind because he felt that he was able to stop the Germans. He had confidence in his ability to...
Schmedemann, Keith Segment 6
Schmedemann's career was in his hands. He wanted to go to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth,...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 6
They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...
Ohr, Freddie Segment 6
Freddie Ohr had an aerial photographer in his group who had just come out of the photography school in Denver. He asked...
Woods, Edward Segment 6
Woods was upset after the war because he wasn't given the benefits of the G.I. Bill. A friend of his his who had been...
Greer, Richard Segment 6
Richard Greer thought very highly of the navy medical personnel who worked with them. The pharmacist’s mates were...
Hawk, John Segment 6
President Harry S. Truman was convinced to come to the west coast [Annotator’s Note: to award Hawk with the Medal of...
Rall, Gunther Segment 6
[Annotator's Note: for the first 35 seconds of this segment Rall is speaking German with someone in the room other than...
Lazarick, Len Segment 7
They had a couple of rainy days in April [Annotator's Note: April 1945] but the rains got heavy after Lazarick left. He...
Phillips, Henry Segment 7
When Henry Phillips left the hospital after three weeks of recovering from his third wound he boarded a replacement...
Old Coyote, Barney Segment 7
Barney Old Coyote’s crew was credited with sinking a submarine; it was not an individual accolade. The escort would...
Schmedemann, Keith Segment 7
Back in the United States the main role he had was to see that everybody's personnel records were in order before they...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 7
During the breakout from the Anzio beachhead John Vessey was a forward observer with an infantry company. They were...
Holloman, William Segment 7
A typical day [Annotator’s Note: in Italy during the war in 1945] started at 4:40 or 5:00 in the morning. After...
Cole, Richard Segment 7
Once they [Annotators Note: Richard Cole, James Doolittle, and the crewmen aboard their B-25 which had just taken part...
Kassal, Bentley Segment 7
Kassal remembers they moved very quickly through France, through the Rhone Valley, stopping in various cities like...
Williams, Hershel "Woody" Segment 7
Hershel Williams does not remember knocking out some of the pillboxes. One of them, however, Williams remembers, ran...
Carrington, James Segment 7
[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 7
The 164th [Annotators Note: the US Army’s 164th Infantry Regiment] came ashore as the 1st Raider Battalion was...
Baker, Vernon Segment 8
Vernon Baker reviews details of his Medal of Honor actions in Italy on 5 April 1945. He had a big, strong BAR [...
Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 8
When Rankin arrives at Mitchell Field, [Annotator's Note: Mitchell Field, New York - First Air Force Headquarters] he...
Showers, Donald "Mac" Segment 8
At the same time Rochford was getting relieved, Captain Goggin was replacing him and was on the way to take over. There...

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