Experiencing enemy fire

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Richard "Dick" Willhour returned from a rest camp as the outfit [Annotator's Note: 100th Infantry Division] was moving...
Salvatore Famularo was at the Amphitheater [Annotator’s Note: a terrain feature on Iwo Jima, Japan] which was a big...
John Finn stayed on .30 and .50 caliber machine guns throughout the battle, but couldn't be sure if he shot down any...
Marvin H. Gohlke was out of his foxhole about an hour before nightfall. He heard the Germans were firing mortars at...
James A. Griffis was in Belgium and Holland [Annotator's Note: with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 414th Infantry Regiment,...
Joseph Goble and the Marines went about strengthening their lines on the edge of the mountains [Annotator's Note: after...
John T. Fallon was wounded at Anzio [Annotator's Note: Battle of Anzio, 22 January 1944 to 5 June 1944, Anzio, Italy]....
Ed Tunnicliff had to get into a third tank. He learned all five positions [Annotator’s Note: the M4 Sherman medium...
Carl Landwehr arrived in Southampton, England on D-Day [Annotator's Note: the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June...
[Annotator’s Note: There is background noise throughout this segment.] William Meyer was assigned as a rifleman with...
During his service in Europe, Russell Schuman was assigned to Company B, 48th Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored...
James Nannini participated in the Normandy Invasion [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion of Normandy, France...
The Germans had the Americans up a tree for six weeks after the landing [Annotator's Note: D-Day; the Allied invasion...
John T. Fallon and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 3rd Battalion, 36th Engineer Combat Regiment] made the...
Johnny Ngai was riding on a tank into Southern France. He was hurt on the second day. They were having lunch inside a...
Donald Evans and his outfit [Annotator's Note: 66th Armored Regiment, 2nd Armored Division] got orders to mount up....
Lewis E. Belcher [Annotator's Note: a tank commander in Company B, 11th Tank Battalion, 10th Armored Division, sent to...
Norman Neste was in his first big battle at the Bulge [Annotator's Note: Battle of the Bulge or Ardennes Counter...
[Annotator’s Note: The video glitches throughout the segment.] Roy D. Goad [Annotator’s Note: a lieutenant in the 143rd...
Glover Pugh [Annotator's Note: serving with the 10th Mountain Division] arrived in Italy [Annotator's Note: in December...
On Easter morning, 1 April 1945, Andrew Petrus [Annotator's Note: with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment...
Bernard Hillenbrand and his division [Annotator's Note: Hillenbrand was a rifleman in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 18th...
[Annotator's Note: Robert Philips served in the Army as a combat medic in the 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry...
While Ralph Morse was in the hospital recovering from malaria, he was told he would not be going back to the Pacific [...
On his second day on Iwo Jima, Japan, William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th...
Roger A. Lewis went to Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] for training. Then they [Annotator'...
Charles Gubish managed to have some fun when he had time off. There was a food bank [Annotator's Note: during the...
Robert L. Donovan did not rely on his faith as much as people would think. He did not find himself praying very often....
Lionel Lopez went to Leyte Island in the Philippines. He stayed on the beach with equipment. On the second day,...
On 11 June 1945, Kenneth Dwight Wells and his company [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment...
Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...
Burton "Burt" Johnson was on Pavuvu [Annotator's Note: Pavuvu, Russell Islands with the 1st Marine Division]. He never...
[Annotator's Note: Jack Werner fought on Leyte Island, Philippines from October 1944 until April 1945]. In that time,...
Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was sent to...
Clayton Hall was pinned down [Annotator's Note: with Company C, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...
Richard Yavenue and the 2nd Marine Division continued to advance across the island [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern...

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