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Tyler, Kermit Segment 3
Tyler was 27 or 28 when he went to Hawaii. Hawaii was a pleasant place. There were alerts but Tyler never heard about...
Duchossois, Richard Segment 3
Richard Duchossois and the 610th Tank Destroyer Battalion were attached to the 80th Infantry Division at the time of...
Rogers, Ernest Segment 3
During the initial attack Rogers was in the bushes away from the air field and could see them fly over. That was around...
Bishop, Charles Segment 3
For Charles Bishop, submarine school was pretty intense. The course lasted three months during which the class spent a...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 3
Steve Pisanos got his private pilot’s license. He studied from a booklet he had picked up while visiting a Greek Air...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 3
Delewski took part in the Normandy operation. That was the first time the Laffey saw action. He was put in charge of...
Rall, Gunther Segment 3
The Americans had very qualified airplanes in the P-51 and P-47. He remembered that the P-47 could keep a higher speed...
Feightner, Edward "Whitey" Segment 3
The Yorktown [Annotator's Note: USS Yorktown (CV-10)] was gone when Feightner arrived at Pearl Harbor so he went down...
Cole, Richard Segment 3
[Annotators Note: Richard Cole served in the USAAF as a pilot flying B-25 Mitchell medium with the 17th Bombardment...
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 3
[Annotators Note: James Smith served in the USMC as a radioman and rifleman in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] They...
Anderson, Clarence "Bud" Segment 4
Clarence Anderson describes how the P-51 Mustang [Annotator's Note: North American P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft] came...
Gardner, Clinton Segment 4
Clinton Gardner went back to England and stayed in the field hospital. He had an operation using skin from his leg to...
Leahr, John Segment 4
An average escort mission would last for 5 to 6 hours but some lasted 7 hours or more. That was a long time to be in a...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 4
A few minutes after 7:00 [Annotator's Note: 7:00 a.m., 7 December 1941] one of the plotters made some entries on the...
Merrill, Milford "Bud" Segment 4
There was a problem with some of the arming switches in the Bombing 3 [Annotator's Note: Bombing Squadron 3] bombers....
Jackson, Donald Segment 4
In Africa they were out in the desert were the French Foreign Legion was training and were headquartered. They worked...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 4
[Annotators Note: John Vessey served in the army as the First Sergeant of Headquarters and Headquarters Battery,...
Dupuy, Marsden "Pic" Segment 4
Dupuy flew air support for the Marines who were landing on Tinian [Annotator’s Note: July 1944]. The invasion took...
Greer, Richard Segment 4
Richard Greer experienced some bayonet fighting during the Battle for Henderson Field but more so at Point Cruz. They...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 4
Years ago Delewski did an interview for National Geographic. He accompanied his commanding officer Captain Becton [...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 4
Theodore Van Kirk was the group navigator for the 509th Bombardment Group [Annotator's Note: 509th Composite Group]....
Baptiste, Wallace Segment 4
Baptiste had a janitorial service. One of his clients was a doctor who stayed on Corregidor [Annotator's Note:...
Cole, Richard Segment 4
As a child in Dayton, Ohio Richard Cole was only a half hour bike ride from McCook Army Airfield where he would go to...
Luckadoo, John Segment 5
A typical mission for John Luckadoo started by him being woken up between three and half past three in the morning,...
Tyler, Kermit Segment 5
On 1 September 1942 Tyler was transferred to the 44th [Annotator's Note: 44th Fighter Squadron] at Bellows Field as...
Schmedemann, Keith Segment 5
They moved on and Schmedemann ended the war in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia with the Fifth Corps. Pilsen was undamaged so...
Vejtasa, Stanley Segment 5
The ship went into the Atlantic. Vejtasa's ship met up with the Ranger, CV-4 [Annotator's Note: USS Ranger (CV-4)]....
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 5
Theodore Van Kirk remembers what he was told about the bomb. All they knew was they had to get away from the area as...
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...
Bailey, Herman Segment 5
On the 16th [Annotator’s Note: 16 May 1945 on Okinawa] Bailey moved out but got pinned down again and took cover in...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 5
On trip after the winter weather started to move in, they were briefed to a 50 knot head wind. They were in formation....
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 6
Alexander Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer], out over the...
Rankin, Robert "Shorty" Segment 6
Rankin got two confirmed, one probable, and one "damaged" during a fight on 15 March [Annotator’s Note: 1944]. All of...
Pisanos, Steve Segment 6
When Steve Pisanos was in Vietnam he was to drop weapons and food to a convoy that was lost in the jungle. He got close...
Hannan, Philip M. Segment 6
One of Hannan's most vivid memories from his action during the Battle of the Bulge was the care that their medics gave...
Luckadoo, John Segment 7
When John Luckadoo was on his bomb run [Annotators Note: during the 8 October 1943 mission to Bremen] it was terribly...

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