Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
2:14 | Army candidate Leo Goldner is supposed to be getting hand-to-hand combat training from Brigadier General (then Colonel) Frank Merrill but ends up training him instead.
Keywords : Merrill's Marauders Fort Benning hand to hand fighting CBI (China Burma India Theater)
Leo Goldner, while in the Philippines, interrupts an enemy soldier who emerges from the jungles to rape a USO performer.
1st Lt. Leo Goldner, who is Jewish, has an amazing encounter in the jungles of the Philippines.
After sleeping among dead Japanese soldiers in the Philippines, 1st. Lt. Leo Goldner saves a life and is rewarded with a new place to live.
Army candidate Leo Goldner is supposed to be getting hand-to-hand combat training from Brigadier General (then Colonel) Frank Merrill but ends up training him instead.
Leo Goldner's experiences in Ft. Benning dealing with a tough tactical officer and teaching judo to a Colonel.
Mr. Goldner describes a trip when he was supposed to return home, but instead, his ship was re-routed to the Aleutian Islands to help another ship. The exposure to cold weather caused many of the men to get sick, but Goldner nursed them back to health.
Mr. Goldner relates his culture shock upon arriving in New Guinea and then the Philippines, and a time when he lived with a Chinese family to avoid the awful living quarters in a bombed out building.
Leo Goldner organizes a Seder in the Philippines for Passover after acquiring materials, food, and help from various sources.
Mr. Goldner becomes the assistant to the Lieutenant in charge of entertainment for the troops, and has many interesting experiences with the entertainers including an attack during a performance.
Leo Goldner is working in an Army Replacement Depot when he disobeys regulations resulting in an interesting move to the Pentagon.
Humorous incidents from Leo Goldner's assignment of being in charge of catching cheaters at cards and dice among the troops, and almost getting in trouble for accidentally cheating himself.
Leo Goldner boards a Japanese ship and accepts the surrender of its captain.
During duty looking for Japanese combatants in the Philippine jungles after the Japanese surrender, Leo Goldner almost accidentally orders the destruction of huts occupied by hiding Jews.
