Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO)

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Rudy Cravens was born in Tennessee in February 1918. The Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global...
Edward J. Leonard was in a National Guard unit that was federalized. They put out a call for volunteers. Leonard had a...
Raymond Burchell was a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division when he finished his service. On his way down south, he...
Arnold Horn remembers that they had to help build barracks while they slept in tents. They trained with wooden guns....
Bruce LaRose was born in Pennsylvania. He remembers the Great Depression [Annotator's Note: Great Depression; a global...
[Annotator's Note: A dog barks in the background throughout video.] Clifford Smith was born in Jeannette, Pennsylvania...
Lloyd Rogers joined the service in New Orleans [Annotator’s Note: New Orleans, Louisiana]. He had basic training in St...
Leedell Neyland joined the Navy in January 1941. He was supposed to do four years, but they were going to do six years...
Thomas Michael Holt was in a prison camp [Annotator's Note: Oflag 64 in Szubin, Poland] that the Germans decided to...
[Annotator’s Note: After being captured in North Africa by Germans and sent to Italy,] Olin Pickens boarded an...
Helias Doundoulakis [Annotator's Note: an American citizen living in Crete, Greece and working for the British Special...
Herman Pbert's mother helped him, and others escape [Annotator's Note: from a Nazi concentration camp in Italy]. His...
In late May 1945, because Frank Finklang did not have enough points to go home, he was transferred to 346th Bombardment...
Merrill J. Clark dug a small hole to take cover in [Annotator's Note: he was on Mount Belvedere in Italy with Company K...
When he was overseas, Frederick Amore was servicing mostly C-46s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss C-46 Commando transport...
Ivan Van der Pool's unit [Annotator's Note: Company L, 3rd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division]...
In May 1943, Earl Ervin Clark and the 87th Mountain Infantry [Annotator's Note: 87th Mountain Infantry Regiment, 10th...
Harold Ashton felt like the Germans would be better fighters, smarter people, and better trained. He thought the...
The Allied campaign in Italy was cold and miserable. Alfred A. Johnson, Jr. fought with some Mexican-American troops....
There must have been 1,500 guns around Ploesti [Annotator's Note: Ploesti, Romania]. That was where they [Annotator's...
Robert Ledford was born in December 1924 in northern Missouri. His family moved to Illinois when he was about 12 years...
On Christmas Day 1943 [Annotator's Note: 25 December 1943], Norman Raner was transferred to a little airfield. Mark...
John Lawler flew a P-51 [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] with the 2nd Squadron, 52nd...
Reneau Breard was stationed in the mountains of Italy near Naples [Annotator’s Note: Naples, Italy]. His unit was...
Harley Reynolds remembers artillery fire coming in from one of the supporting ships out at sea. The shells came just...
[Annotator's Note: James Nerison served in the Navy as a torpedo man aboard PT-305 in Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 22 (...
Carl Robert Gatlin enlisted in the Army and after training, he was sent to Blackstone, Virginia to be shipped overseas...
Howard T. Maki and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 339th Infantry Regiment, 85th Infantry...
Harley Reynolds notes that today everything is different from what they were doing. Reynolds notes that they had to do...
Harley Reynolds was one of the first people under fire during the invasion of North Africa. Reynolds saw fighting on...
At one time in North Africa there was a big tank battle going on. Carl Peterson was up in the mountains and could see...
Harley Reynolds notes that a few of the wounded men were dragging behind. They made it to the trench area. They had men...
When Herman Pbert joined the resistance [Annotator's Note: Italian resistance movement, an umbrella term for the...
Lloyd Rogers remembers that there were temporary airfields in the Sahara Desert. Each airplane was dispersed with 100...

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