Experience with death

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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....
Finkbeiner, Theodore Segment 6
Theodore Finkbeiner and his company [Annotators Note: Company H, 2nd Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd...
Luckadoo, John Segment 6
John Luckadoo and the other aircrews began receiving heavy fire as soon as they reached the enemy coast. The flak was...
Shoens, Robert Segment 6
Robert Shoens notes that they used to argue about certain things at their reunions. There were other missions when...
Baldwin, Lewis "Jack" Segment 6
The 2nd Division took Leipzig, Germany. It was heavily fortified. In Leipzig they found doorways and stairways that led...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 6
Alexander Vraciu lost his wing man, Brockmeyer [Annotators Note: US Navy Ensign Homer Brockmeyer], out over the...
Brooks, Howard Segment 6
The Japanese kept the Americans and British in separate groups until they started working on the railroad.The food was...
Gravois, Francois "F.D." Segment 6
Teddy [Annotator's Note: Lieutenant Theodore "Teddy" Keller, Gravois' future brother-in-law] and Gravois trained in New...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 6
Paluch believes that it is very important that institutions like the World War II Museum preserve the stories of people...
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...
Church, Ray Segment 6
The train station manager said that the tracks were blown up and that passage to Yokahama would be impossible. Church...
Benario, Janice "Janice Martin" Segment 6
Janice Benario met her future husband at a Latin seminar at Johns Hopkins. Benario’s husband took a position at Emory...
Monpat, Raymond Segment 6
They had the Evans floating and had an auxiliary generator running; that meant lights and refrigeration. They were...
Biddle, Melvin Segment 6
One of Biddle's squad members was ordered to cut a piece of wire. He went up to cut the wire as ordered by an officer...
Spivey, Leonard Segment 6
Leonard Spivey did not have a full crew for the mission. On the Schweinfurt mission Spivey was the squadron lead...
Delewski, Lawrence Segment 6
When the Laffey left Pearl Harbor she was assigned as a escort for an old battleship heading out into the Pacific to...
Ward, Harold Segment 6
[Annotators Note: Harold Ward served in the navy as a mess attendant aboard the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco (CA-38...
Disanza, William Segment 6
[Annotators Note: William DiSanza served in the army and was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, and...
Myers, Leroy Segment 6
The heat of our bodies is what saved their lives. They had charcoal heaters but were not given any charcoal. It was...
Milosevich, Risto Segment 6
During the first attack the Germans walked toward Milosevich's position. No tanks were sent at them for fear that they...
James, C.W. "Tex" Segment 6
The USS New Orleans [Annotator's Note: US Navy heavy cruiser USS New Orleans, CA32] was a sister ship to the San...
Weinart, John Segment 6
John Weinart notes that the previous story was probably the closest he ever got to being killed. It was not an unusual...
Bailey, Herman Segment 6
Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotator’s Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...
Deen, Braswell Segment 6
The Japanese had steel, concrete, and coral bunkers all over the island [Annotator’s Note: Peleliu, September 1944]....
Zager, Raymond Segment 6
Raymond Zager drove into the compound [Annotator's Note: Gunskirchen Lager Concentration Camp in Austria]. There were...
Gibbons, John Segment 6
John Gibbons is a big believer in the Boeing B-17. He saw a lot of planes that were damaged. Gibbons flew a plane named...
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...
Rackley, Clifford Segment 6
Munich was defended with 105 millimeter guns which were different than the 88 millimeter guns they were used to. They...
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...
Bouck, Lyle Segment 7
Slape and Creger [Annotators Note: Sgt. William Slape and Private John B. Creger] were trying to get back to the...
Gardner, Clinton Segment 7
Clinton Gardner and the armed forces with him were so well trained that he does not remember being afraid when they...
Phillips, Henry Segment 7
When Henry Phillips left the hospital after three weeks of recovering from his third wound he boarded a replacement...
Shoens, Robert Segment 7
Robert Shoens felt that the flak was limited on that mission [Annotators Note: the 6 March 1944 mission to Berlin]. It...
Vraciu, Alexander "Alex" Segment 7
Alexander Vraciu and the other members of his squadron [Annotators Note: Fighting Squadron 16 (VF 16)] were in their...
Gravois, Francois "F.D." Segment 7
Gravois didn't get any sleep during the 2 nights he was on Tarawa. The Japanese tried to infiltrate their lines, but...
Bell, Bryan Segment 7
Bell and his men got on the other side of the river and did not lose a single man. This was remarkable because each man...

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