Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO)

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Mancuso, Frank Texas and Florida
Frank Mancuso landed in Charleston, South Carolina then he travelled on a hospital train to McKinney, Texas and then to...
Hajiro, Barney The 442nd Regimental Combat Team in Italy
Barney Hajiro fought in Northern Italy. Hajiro was the messenger for Company M [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd...
Halpern, Gerard The Anzio Breakout
Gerard Halpern landed at Anzio in April [Annotators Note: April of 1944] and was assigned to his new squad. They were...
Field, Richard The Battle of the Bulge
[Annotator's Note: Richard Field served in the Army as a paratrooper with the 551st Parachute Infantry Battalion, then...
Breard, Reneau The Bulge
Reneau Breard [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division] was...
Dubay, Henry The Bulge and War’s End
Henry Dubay and his C-47 [Annotator's Note: Douglas C-47 Skytrain cargo aircraft] squadron [Annotator’s Note: 34th...
Shirley, John The Cassino Front
John Shirley was an infantry replacement sergeant. He was stationed at Fort Meade, Maryland. After a three-day leave [...
Burchell, Raymond The Causeway
Raymond Burchell remembers seeing many young men in the German Army. Hitler [Annotator's Note: German dictator Adolf...
Barfoot, Van The CCC, Joining the Army and Fighting in Sicily and Italy
Van Barfoot first served with the 1st Infantry Division after he enlisted at Fort Benning, Georgia. With the 1st...
Finklang, Frank The Dangers of Missions
Frank Finklang was put with experienced crews for nine missions, and then his original crew was reformed to fly their...
Maymon, Paul The Depression to Wartime
Paul Maymon was born in June 1920 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked with a fabric company until it...
Reynolds, Harley The end of the Sicilian campaign and the dreaded Screaming Mimis
Harley Reynolds thinks he was crazy to have assaulted that pillbox by himself. Only four hours before he had learned...
Barnes, Walter The End of the War
When Walter Barnes got back to the United States they had to get to their homes on their own. A guy he served with had...
Reynolds, Harley The first 3 days in Sicily
Harley Reynolds recognizes that the invasion [Annotators Note: the invasion of Sicily] was fairly easy in terms of...
Sherman, Joyce The Holocaust
Joyce Sherman was not aware of the Holocaust, but she knew about what was going on. She was in high school when she...
Estes, Bruce The Lost Battalion
Bruce Estes’ battalion [Annotator’s Note: 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division] was driving...
Blonder, Erwin The Lost Battalion and Going Home
Erwin Blonder remembers Marty Higgins [Annotator's Note: US Army Captain Martin J. Higgins] sending a sergeant and 35...
Compton, Bryan The March to Rome
Jumping out [Annotator's Note: breaking out of the Anzio, Italy beachhead] on 4 June 1944, Bryan Compton's division [...
Coolidge, Charles The Medal of Honor and Combat Stories
Charles Coolidge took sheep into a minefield instead of sending men through it to be sure there were no mines. Early in...
Field, Richard The Mediterranean
Richard Field was overseas for about 21 months. His son was born nine months after he returned. They sailed out in a...
Duffy, Gowan The Morning of D-Day
Gowan Duffy remembers around five in the morning [Annotator’s Note: on their way to D-Day, the Allied invasion of...
Lewis, Claude The Mountain Division
Claude L. Lewis kissed the ground when he returned to the States [Annotator’s Note: United States]. He had enough...
Hill, Jennings The Murmansk Run
[Annotator's Note: Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. went to Oran, North Africa aboard the SS Buffalo Wallow in 1943.] They...
Neyland, Leedell The Neyland Family
Leedell Neyland got his doctorate degree. He served as Vice President of Academics at Florida A...
Reynolds, Harley The night of June 6th and morning of June 7th 1944
Harley Reynolds, through subsequent research, was able to find out what the German half track was doing there. The half...
Thompson, Thomas The Philippines and Filipinos
Thomas D. Thompson boarded his Patrol Craft in Leyte [Annotator's Note: Leyte, Philippines] in the Lingayen Gulf [...
Smith, Arthur The PT-Boat
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Arthur Smith to talk about the PT-Boat.] Smith got a ride on Elco [Annotator's...
Dietrick, Alfred The Salerno Invasion
After finishing training [Annotator's Note: with Company B, 1st Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry...
Porche, Albert The Tuskegee Airmen
Albert Porche served in Italy with the 99th Fighter Squadron. The 99th was issued light training aircraft after months...
Brown, Roscoe The Tuskegee Airmen and Red Tails Movies and Reflections
Dr. Roscoe Brown says that the scene in the film "Red Tails" where the pilots were standing on the air field doing a...
Halpern, Gerard The US had to be in World War 2
Gerard Halpern feels that the United States could not have avoided taking part in World War 2. The United States had...
Cohen, Jack The War Begins for Greece
The war started for Jack Cohen when Mussolini [Annotator's Note: Italian fascist dictator Benito Amilcare Andrea...
Hill, Jennings The War Ends
Jennings Paul Hill, Sr. learned the war had ended by radio. The ships were having a big time and celebrating. The weird...
Jagers, Robert The War Ends
Robert Jagers' orders were to report to Columbia University [Annotator's Note: Columbia University in New York, New...

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