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NEW - Arthur Buffington, U.S. Army Air Force, 316th Bomber Wing (WWII): Mr. Buffington describes guarding Japanese prisoners as his first job over seas.
Watch Video » NEW - Charlie Powell, U.S. Army, 564th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (WWII): Mr. Powell briefly describes the aftermath he experienced after the Battle of Bastogne.
Watch Video » NEW - Charlie Powell, U.S. Army, 564th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (WWII): Mr. Powell describes being badly wounded during a gasoline explosion and shares what he experienced while in the hospital.
Watch Video » NEW - Charlie Powell, U.S. Army, 564th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (WWII): Mr. Powell describes his experiences during a close call with German planes strafing his position.
Watch Video » NEW - Charlie Powell, U.S. Army, 564th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (WWII): Mr. Powell discusses the characteristics of German soldiers after the war had ended and coming into contact with many of them.
Watch Video » NEW - Charlie Powell, U.S. Army, 564th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (WWII): Mr. Powell shares the details of his intense first combat experience in France.
Watch Video » NEW - Charlie Powell, U.S. Army, 564th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (WWII): Mr. Powell discusses getting lost in France due to misdirection by his 2nd Lt.
Watch Video » NEW - Charlie Powell, U.S. Army, 564th Signal Aircraft Warning Battalion (WWII): Mr. Powell describes the circumstances of his rough trip from the U.S. to Europe on an English ship.
Watch Video » NEW - Harold Peters, U.S. Army, 101st Airborne (WWII): Mr. Peters discusses the struggles his company faced while crossing the Rhine River and the injury he received in the process.
Watch Video » NEW - Harold Peters, U.S. Army, 101st Airborne (WWII): Mr. Peters describes capturing a German gold train and discovering the mystery that surrounded it.
Watch Video » NEW - Harold Peters, U.S. Army, 101st Airborne (WWII): Mr. Peters describes visiting and capturing Hitlers home in Germany.
Watch Video » NEW - Harold Peters, U.S. Army, 101st Airborne (WWII): Mr. Peters discusses the events leading up to his brutal first jump on D-Day.
Watch Video » NEW - Jim Goodwin, U.S. Navy, USS Republic, Troop Transport, AP33 (WWII): Mr. Goodwin discusses the tragic loss of a sailor who committed suicide on the way back home.
Watch Video » NEW - Jim Goodwin, U.S. Navy, USS Republic, Troop Transport, AP33 (WWII): Mr. Goodwin describes a gambling ring that he and his fellow sailors used on their way back to the States.
Watch Video » NEW - Jim Goodwin, U.S. Navy, USS Republic, Troop Transport, AP33 (WWII): Mr. Goodwin discusses experiencing head hunters sell pictures of decapitated Japanese soldiers on an island in the Pacific.
Watch Video » NEW - Jim Goodwin, U.S. Navy, USS Republic, Troop Transport, AP33 (WWII): Mr. Goodwin describes crossing paths with a Japanese submarine while in route to Halandia and explains how one of the soldiers boarded an American ship.
Watch Video » NEW - Jim Goodwin, U.S. Navy, USS Republic, Troop Transport, AP33 (WWII): Mr. Goodwin describes witnessing a coast guard ship sink near the harbor of New Guinea.
Watch Video » NEW - Jim Goodwin, U.S. Navy, USS Republic, Troop Transport, AP33 (WWII): Mr. Goodwin discusses capturing and transporting Japanese prisoners from New Guinea to the United States.
Watch Video » NEW - John Cushman, U.S. Army, 103rd Inf. Div., 409th Inf. Regt., Co. E (WWII): Mr. Cushman discusses his survival methods and experiences during the Battle of the Bulge.
Watch Video » NEW - John Cushman, U.S. Army, 103rd Inf. Div., 409th Inf. Regt., Co. E (WWII): Mr. Cushman shares how he was one of five original soldiers from his platoon that survived their entire tour of Europe, and, in turn, earned a bronze star.
Watch Video » NEW - John Cushman, U.S. Army, 103rd Inf. Div., 409th Inf. Regt., Co. E (WWII): Mr. Cushman describes witnessing his Lt. bleed to death after being shot in the neck by a German sniper.
Watch Video » NEW - John Cushman, U.S. Army, 103rd Inf. Div., 409th Inf. Regt., Co. E (WWII): Mr. Cushman discusses being knocked unconscious by artillery fire and shares a funny incident that followed.
Watch Video » NEW - John Cushman, U.S. Army, 103rd Inf. Div., 409th Inf. Regt., Co. E (WWII): Mr. Cushman describes overcoming difficult objectives during a brutal battle with German soldiers upon a mountain.
Watch Video » NEW - John Cushman, U.S. Army, 103rd Inf. Div., 409th Inf. Regt., Co. E (WWII): Mr. Cushman describes the way he felt when he came across the corpses of fallen German soldiers.
Watch Video » NEW - John Cushman, U.S. Army, 103rd Inf. Div., 409th Inf. Regt., Co. E (WWII): Mr. Cushman shares his experiences of his first combat mission in Europe and discusses the tragic loss of his company commander.
Watch Video » NEW - James Gaston, U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Div., 3rd Recon Company (Korea): Mr. Gaston describes nearly being hit by m6 rounds from a far distance.
Watch Video » NEW - James Gaston, U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Div., 3rd Recon Company (Korea): Mr. Gaston describes mis-firing a flare inside a trench while defending a creek.
Watch Video » NEW - James Gaston, U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Div., 3rd Recon Company (Korea): Mr. Gaston discusses how he referred to his Korean interpreter as "Bird Dog," due to his ability to sniff out Kimji while searching for Chinese forces.
Watch Video » NEW - James Gaston, U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Div., 3rd Recon Company (Korea): Mr. Gaston describes a recon mission assigned by major Eisenhower when his company happened to scare away Chinese forces.
Watch Video » NEW - James Gaston, U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry Div., 3rd Recon Company (Korea): Mr. Gaston discusses his first combat experience during the Korean War.
Watch Video » NEW - Andy Tsimpides, U.S. Army, 1st Cavalry Division (WWII): Mr. Tsimpides describes the challenges of landing in New Britain and fighting Japanese forces leading up to his career ending injury.
Watch Video » NEW - Andy Tsimpides, U.S. Army, 1st Cavalry Division (WWII): Mr. Tsimpides describes being brutally wounded in combat, mistakenly declared dead, and the results that followed.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Lemonds, U.S. Army Air Corp, 567th Bomb Sqd., 389th Bomb Group, 2nd Air Division, Waist Gunner B-24, 8th A.F. (WWII): Part 2: Mr. Lemonds concludes sharing his experiences during the German death march.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Lemonds, U.S. Army Air Corp, 567th Bomb Sqd., 389th Bomb Group, 2nd Air Division, Waist Gunner B-24, 8th A.F. (WWII): Part 1: Mr. Lemonds describes his experiences throughout the German death march after spending an extended period of time at Stalag IV as a prisoner of war.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Lemonds, U.S. Army Air Corp, 567th Bomb Sqd., 389th Bomb Group, 2nd Air Division, Waist Gunner B-24, 8th A.F. (WWII): Mr. Lemonds graphically describes his experiences when his plane was shot down over Germany.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Lemonds, Army Air Corp, 567th Bomb Sqd., 389th Bomb Group, 2nd Air Division, Waist Gunner B-24, 8th A.F. (WWII): Mr. Lemonds discusses witnessing a close friends plane get shot down over Berlin, and later finding out the results of the crash.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Lemonds, U.S. Army Air Corp, 567th Bomb Sqd., 389th Bomb Group, 2nd Air Division, Waist Gunner B-24, 8th A.F. (WWII): Mr. Lemonds describes his experiences during his first bombing mission on D-Day.
Watch Video » NEW - Wallace Shipp, USS Callaway (WWII): Wallace Shipp remembers how a kamikaze attack near the Lingayan Gulf left dozens of sailors heavily burned.
Watch Video » NEW - Wallace Shipp, USS Callaway (WWII): Wallace Shipp, a hospital corpsman, recalls taking part in the invasion of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in early 1944.
Watch Video » NEW - Will Crawford, Foxy 29 Armed Medical Corps (WWII): Will Crawford tells the story behing the formation of Foxy 29, an armed medical corps.
Watch Video » NEW - Robert Rutledge, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Robert Rutledge remarks at how his ship managed to survive the deadly typhoons in the Pacific.
Watch Video » NEW - Robert Rutledge, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Robert Rutledge recalls taking a few bomb blasts from Japanese aircraft near Okinawa, and witnessing the destruction of the USS Franklin.
Watch Video » NEW - Robert Rutledge, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Robert Rutledge describes a few of his responsibilities in helping secure landing aircraft aboard the USS Yorktown.
Watch Video » NEW - Fred Springs, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Fred Springs shares a funny moment regarding lunch on the rough seas.
Watch Video » NEW - Fred Springs, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Fred Springs recalls witnessing the explosions aboard the USS Franklin after it was hit by a lone kamikaze bomber.
Watch Video » NEW - Fred Springs, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Near the island of Iwo Jima, Fred Springs remembers taking part in emergency aircraft landings after a nearby battle.
Watch Video » NEW - Fred Springs, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Fred Springs talks about performing burials at sea aboard the USS Yorktown.
Watch Video » NEW - Fred Springs, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Fred Springs shares one particularly gory accident aboard the USS Yorktown flight deck.
Watch Video » NEW - Fred Springs, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): Fred Springs recalls a few close calls from kamikazes near Midway, including one which took the lives of several fellow sailors.
Watch Video » NEW - Fred Springs, USS Yorktown (CV-10) (WWII): A barrier operator aboard the USS Yorktown, Fred Springs describes how the landing cables stopped incoming planes and how dangerous the cables could be.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Wall, USS Pinkney (WWII): While anchored at Okinawa in 1945, Jack Wall describes a Japanese kamikaze attack which killed over a dozen of his fellow crewmembers, including a close friend.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Connolly, USS Essex (WWII): Frank Connolly recalls one memorable crash aboard the USS Essex while supporting airstrikes in the Pacific.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Connolly, USS YMS-422 (WWII): After the war's end, Frank Connolly remembers going overboard while his ship was on a de-mining mission in the Sea of Japan.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Connolly, USS YMS-422 (WWII): After being stationed in Hawaii, Frank Connolly recalls shipping out to Okinawa just in time for his minesweeper ship to come face to face with a typhoon.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Connolly, USS Essex (WWII): Aboard the USS Essex near the Marianas, Frank Connolly describes a very close call with a Japanese bomb.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Connolly, USS St. Louis (WWII): Shortly after the attack at Pearl Harbor, Frank Connolly remembers the series of bombardment missions his ship took part in, including the Aleutian Islands off the Alaskan coast.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Connolly, USS St. Louis (WWII): After the attack at Pearl Harbor, Frank Connolly recalls being tasked with clearing dead bodies out of the water.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Connolly, USS St. Louis (WWII): Frank Connolly describes in detail his experiences leading up to and during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Watch Video » NEW - Harville Shephard, 174th Field Artillery Battalion (WWII): Harville Shephard talks about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, in 1945.
Watch Video » NEW - Harville Shephard, 174th Field Artillery Battalion (WWII): Harville Shephard recalls chasing retreating German troops into the city of Brest, France, and the resulting artillery battles which took place there.
Watch Video » NEW - Harville Shephard, 174th Field Artillery Battalion (WWII): A few weeks after landing at Normandy, Harville Shephard remembers the sensations of witnessing 3500 Allied aircraft making their way overhead to bomb the German lines.
Watch Video » NEW - Harville Shephard, 174th Field Artillery Battalion (WWII): Harville Shephard recalls a memorable July 4th artillery barrage against German troops in France in 1944.
Watch Video » NEW - Harville Shephard, 174th Field Artillery Battalion (WWII): Harville Shephard describes the dangers that Allied troops faced crossing hedgerows in the French countryside, and how a few clever soldiers found a solution.
Watch Video » NEW - Harville Shephard, 174th Field Artillery Battalion (WWII): After training in England, Harville Shephard recalls preparing for the Normandy invasion on D-Day.
Watch Video » NEW - Thaddeus Sobieski, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division (WWII): Thaddeus Sobieski describes his saddest experience during the Korean War. Provided by the Emory University School of Law Oral History Project, World War II Era.
Watch Video » NEW - Thaddeus Sobieski, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division (WWII): Thaddeus Sobieski tells the story behind the Silver Star he received for one dangerous scouting patrol in Korea. Provided by the Emory University School of Law Oral History Project, World War II Era.
Watch Video » NEW - Henry Keene, 132nd Combat Engineers, 77th Infantry Division (WWII): After taking over Okinawa, Henry Keene recalls moving on to the island of Ieshima and preparing for the mainland invasion of Japan.
Watch Video » NEW - Henry Keene, 132nd Combat Engineers, 77th Infantry Division (WWII): Henry Keene remembers the days before and after the invasion of Okinawa and experiencing his closest call during the war.
Watch Video » NEW - Henry Keene, 132nd Combat Engineers, 77th Infantry Division (WWII): After receiving jungle training on Honolulu, Henry Keene recalls receiving his first taste of combat during the invasion of Guam in 1944.
Watch Video » NEW - Demester Dunaway, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division (WWII): Demester Dunaway recalls the sights from marching through Nagasaki a month after the atomic bomb explosion.
Watch Video » NEW - Demester Dunaway, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division (WWII): Demester Dunaway shares why he wanted to be a Marine and details his basic training experiences before heading to war.
Watch Video » NEW - Van Barfoot, 157th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division (WWII): Van Barfoot describes a few of the heroic actions he performed during an offensive push near Carano, Italy, for which he received the Medal of Honor. Interview provided by The Congressional Medal of Honor Portraits of Valor.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Blanciforte, Merchant Marines (WWII): Frank Blanciforte recalls a conversation he had with a German prisoner of war who had been an American citizen.
Watch Video » NEW - Bernard Goodman, 1892nd Engineer Aviation Battalion (WWII): Bernard Goodman reflects on his time in the military and how World War II affected him. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Bernard Goodman, 1892nd Engineer Aviation Battalion (WWII): Bernard Goodman explains how his unit was prepared to invade mainland Japan if the Japanese had not surrendered. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Bernard Goodman, 1892nd Engineer Aviation Battalion (WWII): Bernard Goodman remembers facing constant combat threats from Japanese forces while his unit was tasked with building runways and roads on the islands of Ie Shima and Okinawa. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Bernard Goodman, 1892nd Engineer Aviation Battalion (WWII): Bernard Goodman recalls his first trip across the Pacific to aid in air base construction in New Guinea. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Vaughan Pitman, Air Services Group, 36th Fighter Group (WWII): Vaughan Pitman shares his experiences visiting Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after it had been liberated in early 1945. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Vaughan Pitman, Air Services Group, 36th Fighter Group (WWII): Vaughan Pitman talks about how British Spitfires and American industry helped keep England out of German hands during World War II. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Vaughan Pitman, Air Services Group, 36th Fighter Group (WWII): Vaughan Pitman shows off two cameras, an aircraft-mounted combat camera and a handheld flash camera, which were commonly used during World War II. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Vaughan Pitman, Air Services Group, 36th Fighter Group (WWII): As a wartime photographer, Vaughan Pitman recalls a memorable image that was taken in St. Lo, France, in 1944. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Vaughan Pitman, Air Services Group, 36th Fighter Group (WWII): Vaughan Pitman explains his role handling combat film during the Normandy invasion in 1944. Interview Conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Vaughan Pitman, Air Services Group, 36th Fighter Group (WWII): Vaughan Pitman describes his first encounter with German V-1 flying bombs while preparing for war in England in early 1943. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): After coming back from World War II and settling down, Roland Glenn describes the post-traumatic stress he began experiencing and the long road he faced to overcoming it. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): Roland Glenn tells the story behind being awared the Purple Heart medal for combat he faced on Okinawa. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): While on occupation duty on the Korean peninsula, Roland Glenn recalls being asked to describe American life to a group of local leaders, and learning much about their culture in the process. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): After the surrender of Japan, Roland Glenn remembers his unit being converted to "storybook soldiers" in order to occupy Korea after World War II, only to experience a few very non-storybook events while stationed there. Interview conducted by David Watts
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): While solemnly preparing for the invasion of the Japanese mainland, Roland Glenn recalls hearing the news of the atomic bombs and the subsequent Japanese surrender. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): Roland Glenn describes taking part in one of the last major battles on Okinawa, and the subsequent final push to clear Japanese fighters off the island. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): Roland Glenn talks about leading his men into a dangerous mission to clear out an escarpment of Japanese-filled caves, a mission for which he earned a Silver Star. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): While in between frontline combat on the island of Okinawa, Roland Glenn remembers taking on a small companion. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): Roland Glenn describes a Japanese surprise attack as his tank and infantry convoy attempted to make their way across a valley in Okinawa. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): Roland Glenn talks about an important lesson in leadership he was taught by his company commander on the island of Okinawa. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): After landing on the island of Okinawa, Roland Glenn remembers a morbid lesson he was given on what it means to be a "replacement" before taking over command of his first unit. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): Roland Glenn describes being part of the largest flotilla ever assembled and the subsequent invasion of the island of Okinawa. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): While unknowingly headed towards the invasion of Okinawa, Roland Glenn remembers how he and a fellow officer attempted to raise troop morale after the death of President Roosevelt. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): Roland Glenn gives an example of how hard-pressed the Japanese troops were for supplies on the island of Saipan. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Roland Glenn, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division (WWII): Roland Glenn recalls how a childhood hunting lesson helped prepare him for combat during World War II. Interview conducted by David Watts.
Watch Video » NEW - Robert Dalton, Jr., I Company, 3rd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division (WWII): Robert Dalton recalls how he became wounded by mortar fire near Brest, France.
Watch Video » NEW - Robert Dalton, Jr., I Company, 3rd Battalion, 121st Regiment, 8th Infantry Division (WWII): Robert Dalton talks about how his whole company fought for survival after being surrounded by German forces for four days.
Watch Video » NEW - Rufus Dalton, H Company, 2nd Battalion, 397th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division (WWII): Rufus Dalton tells the story behind the ironic position a German sniper took while trying to stay hidden from Allied troops.
Watch Video » NEW - Rufus Dalton, H Company, 2nd Battalion, 397th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division (WWII): Rufus Dalton describes what it was like to be in a heavy weapons company during World War II and surviving German artillery fire in the Vosges Mountains.
Watch Video » NEW - Ed Joyeusaz, KS Division, USS Yorktown (WWII): Ed Joyeusaz remembers watching from aboard the USS Yorktown as the USS Franklin was hit by a kamikaze aircraft and underwent several explosions and heavy casualties in March of 1945.
Watch Video » NEW - Ed Joyeusaz, KS Division, USS Yorktown (WWII): Ed Joyeusaz talks about how the signal bridge became a popular spot among sailors trying to contact each other at sea during World War II.
Watch Video » NEW - Ed Joyeusaz, KS Division, USS Yorktown (WWII): Ed Joyeusaz describes the confidence he had in his fellow sailors aboard the USS Yorktown during World War II.
Watch Video » NEW - Ed Joyeusaz, KS Division, USS Yorktown (WWII): Ed Joyeusaz remembers a close call he experienced with a Japanese torpedo aboard the USS Yorktown.
Watch Video » NEW - Ed Joyeusaz, KS Division, USS Yorktown (WWII): Ed Joyeusaz recalls the moment that stands out the most for him as a signalman aboard the USS Yorktown.
Watch Video » NEW - Ed Joyeusaz, KS Division, USS Yorktown (WWII): Ed Joyeusaz describes his responsibilities as a Navy signalman aboard the USS Yorktown during World War II.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Pomroy, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division (WWII): While fighting Japanese forces on the island of Pelelieu, Frank Pomroy remembers trying to save a fellow soldier who had been hit by friendly artillery.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Pomroy, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division (WWII): Frank Pomroy recalls a memorable experience with legendary Marine officer Chesty Puller on the island of Pelelieu.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Pomroy, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division (WWII): Frank Pomroy remembers being part of the first wave onto the island of Peleliu and coming face to face with a Japanese soldier during a banzai charge.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Pomroy, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division (WWII): After fighting at Guadalcanal and arriving at Cape Gloucester, Frank Pomroy describes the Battle of Coffin Corner, which resulted in the loss of a close friend.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Pomroy, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division (WWII): Aside from the fronts in Europe and the Pacific during World War II, Frank Pomroy contends that there was actually a third war going on at the time with General MacArthur.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Pomroy, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division (WWII): Frank Pomroy describes how the Battle of Savo Island was the Navy's greatest defeat during World War II due primarily to Japan's night-fighting superiority.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Pomroy, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Division (WWII): Frank Pomroy tells the "sinful little story" about how he joined the Marine Corps in 1941.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): Jake McNiece shares his feelings toward the combat he experienced during World War II.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): Jake McNiece describes how many young females in Europe were taken prisoner and sent to "baby factories" to produce Nazi children.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): Jake McNiece recalls being given command of a pathfinder unit and helping deliver vital equipment to soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): Jake McNiece remembers disobeying a direct order to try and save his troops' lives during Operation Market Garden in 1944.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): Jake McNiece differentiates between the combat and locales of his missions into Normandy and Holland in 1944.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): Jake McNiece tells the story of a fellow soldier who surprisingly survived despite a major battle wound.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): Jake McNiece recalls dropping into Holland in September of 1944 for Operation Market Garden, an operation which took much longer than expected.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): After making his way into France after the Normandy invasion, Jake McNiece remembers helping clear some of the bodies littered among the countryside.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): Jake McNiece describes a mission to drop into Normandy during the D-Day invasion in order to locate and destroy two vital bridges nearby.
Watch Video » NEW - Jake McNiece, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (WWII): As an airborne soldier during World War II, Jake McNiece remarks at how his jumps became more difficult over time.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Noonan, U.S. Navy, 7th Fleet (WWII): Part 2: Mr. Noonan concludes his story of survival during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Watch Video » NEW - Frank Noonan, U.S. Navy, 7th Fleet (WWII): Part 1: Mr. Noonan describes his experiences and story of survival during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Watch Video » NEW - Harry Mickelboro, USMC, 2nd Engineer Battalion (WWII): Mr. Mickelboro discusses his objectives while serving in Japan and describes the aftermath of the atomic bombs.
Watch Video » NEW - Harry Mickelboro, USMC, 2nd Engineer Battalion (WWII): Mr. Mickelboro discusses the strategy used to land on Okinawa and liberating a bulldozer.
Watch Video » NEW - Harry Mickelboro, USMC, 2nd Engineer Battalion (WWII): Mr. Mickelboro describes his first assignment as a Junior Officer and having to sort through the corpses of fallen Marines.
Watch Video » NEW - Harry Mickelboro, U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers (WWII): Mr. Mickelboro describes witnessing a training accident while disarming booby traps.
Watch Video » NEW - Rivers Anderson, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown CV-10, Bombing Squad 5 (WWII): Part 2: Mr. Anderson concludes his description of his final flying mission.
Watch Video » NEW - Rivers Anderson, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown CV-10, Bombing Squad 5 (WWII): Part 1: Mr. Anderson describes the fear and challenges he faced during his final flying mission.
Watch Video » NEW - Rivers Anderson, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown CV-10, Bombing Squad 5 (WWII): Part 2: Mr. Anderson concludes his description of the invasion of New Guinea.
Watch Video » NEW - Rivers Anderson, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown CV-10, Bombing Squad 5 (WWII): Part 1: Mr. Anderson gives an in depth description of his violent experiences during the invasion of New Guinea.
Watch Video » NEW - Rivers Anderson, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown CV-10, Bombing Squad 5 (WWII): Mr. Anderson explains his duties during the brutal invasion of a pacific island controlled by Japanese forces.
Watch Video » NEW - Rivers Anderson, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown CV-10, Bombing Squad 5 (WWII): Mr. Anderson discusses the difficulties of the raid of Tarawa and numerous injuries of fellow soldiers.
Watch Video » NEW - Bill Huff, 3rd Marine Division, 1st Battalion, 12th Marines (Vietnam): Mr. Huff describes having his entire face nearly incinerated due to a kettle of hot water exploding.
Watch Video » NEW - Bill Huff, 5th Marine Div. HQ (Vietnam): Mr. Huff explains his numerous opportunities to eat with General Kyle due to the help from a close friend.
Watch Video » NEW - Bill Huff, 3rd Marine Division, 1st Battalion, 12th Marines (Vietnam): Mr. Huff explains how a soldier in his platoon stepped on a land mine that miraculously did not detonate.
Watch Video » NEW - Bill Huff, 3rd Marine Division, 1st Battalion, 12th Marines (Vietnam): Mr. Huff discusses the time he served in Da Nang and a funny incident.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Caddel, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown (WWII): Mr. Caddel discusses serving as a Spanish translator in the Philippines during a search and rescue mission.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Caddel, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown (WWII): Mr. Caddel describes personal emotions he experienced during grueling flying missions.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Caddel, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown (WWII): Mr. Caddel describes operating a tail gunner's position and being shot in the back.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Caddel, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown (WWII): Mr. Caddel discusses his duties aboard the Yorktown, his first training accident, and the results that followed.
Watch Video » NEW - Jack Caddel, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown (WWII): Mr. Caddel discusses the funny incidents that led him to joining the U.S. Navy.
Watch Video » NEW - Col. Norman "Boots" Wilmeth, Glider Pilot, 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group (WWII): While flying over Holland, glider pilot. Norman Wilmeth confronted a soldier wearing a Nazi symbol on his forehead. He describes what scared the soldier into heeding his advice.
Watch Video » NEW - Col. Norman "Boots" Wilmeth, Glider Pilot, 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group (WWII): Assigned to guard a German airfield after the war, Col. Wilmeth vividly remembers a strange face to face encounter with German soldiers and the chain of events that followed.
Watch Video » NEW - Col. Norman "Boots" Wilmeth, Glider Pilot, 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group, 1st Allied Airborne Infantry (WWII): In this dramatic recollection, Col. Wilmeth relives flying an unstable glider in the thick of German gunfire. He describes what happened after some very life threatening moments..
Watch Video » NEW - Col. Norman "Boots" Wilmeth, Glider Pilot, 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group (WWII): In Normandy, glider pilot Norman Wilmeth prepared his crew for a crash landing. In this vivid account he describes a surprising turn of events..
Watch Video » NEW - Bill Beard, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division (WWII): Bill Beard describes a few of the more horrific and memorable sights he experienced while passing through Eastern France during World War II.
Watch Video » NEW - Bill Beard, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division (WWII): After volunteering to fight, Bill Beard remembers a few close calls and fortunate incidents during the Battle of the Bulge.
Watch Video » NEW - Bill Beard, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division (WWII): Bill Beard recalls how a training injury may have saved his life by keeping him from fighting in the Normandy invasion.
Watch Video » NEW - Bill Beard, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division (WWII): Bill Beard details the basic training he received as an airborne soldier during World War II.
Watch Video » NEW - Artie Curtis, USS St. Paul (WWII): Artie Curtis discusses how kamikaze aircraft would approach their Navy fleet, and one particularly close call.
Watch Video » NEW - Artie Curtis, USS St. Paul (WWII): Artie Curtis remembers watching a fellow ship capsize and sink after passing through a violent typhoon in the Pacific.
Watch Video » NEW - Artie Curtis, USS St. Paul (WWII): Artie Curtis describes the armament on his ship, the USS St. Paul, and the role it played in the Pacific during World War II.
Watch Video » NEW - Artie Curtis, USS St. Paul (WWII): Shortly after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Artie Curts describes becoming part of the occupation force and witnessing the aftermath of the destruction.
Watch Video » NEW - Ken Jordan, 1253rd Engineer Combat Battalion (WWII): While serving at a prisoner of war camp, Ken Jordan recalls the horror of finding a mass grave nearby which had been used by German soldiers to dispose of the bodies of Allied soldiers and local citizens.
Watch Video » NEW - Ken Jordan, 1253rd Engineer Combat Battalion (WWII): Ken Jordan remembers uncovering German booby-traps in Aachen, Germany, in 1945.
Watch Video » NEW - Ken Jordan, 1253rd Engineer Combat Battalion (WWII): Ken Jordan recalls getting pulled into a surprise celebration while on a reconnaissance mission in Brunswick, Germany, in 1945.
Watch Video » NEW - Ken Jordan, 1253rd Engineer Combat Battalion (WWII): Serving as a combat engineer during World War II, Ken Jordan describes two close calls with shrapnel during the crossing of the Rhine River and during a German artillery attack.
Watch Video » NEW - Milt Dank, Glider Pilot, 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group, 1st Allied Airborne Infantry (WWII): Milt Dank describes why his German prisoners believed they had lost the war. He jokes about how he celebrated victory by almost "violating" the Geneva Convention.
Watch Video » NEW - Milt Dank, Glider Pilot, 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group, 1st Allied Airborne Infantry (WWII): Milt Dank relives his last mission at the Rhine Crossing, his glider being hit by German flak, landing in the thick of sniper fire, and his encounters with the enemy on the ground.
Watch Video » NEW - Milt Dank, Glider Pilot, 91st Troop Carrier Squadron, 439th Troop Carrier Group, 1st Allied Airborne Infantry (WWII): Commanding a convoy of German prisoners, Milt Dank recalls how he stopped townspeople from attacking them. He humorously describes the unusual way he checked into a Belgian hotel.
Watch Video » NEW - Bob Kessler, U.S. Army, 2nd Infantry Division, Forward Observer (Vietnam): Mr. Kessler discusses playing a joke on a new Lieutenant while defending Washington.
Watch Video » NEW - Bob Kessler, U.S. Army, 2nd Infantry Division, Forward Observer (Vietnam): Mr. Kessler describes extinguishing two Vietnamese divisions with artillery fire while defending an Air Force base.
Watch Video » NEW - Bob Kessler, U.S. Army, 2nd Infantry Division, Forward Observer (Korea): Mr. Kessler describes being five miles away from his men and completing a dangerous task commanded by his Colonel.
Watch Video » NEW - Bob Kessler, U.S. Army, 2nd Infantry Division, Forward Observer (Korea): Mr. Kessler describes the difficulties of taking Bloody Ridge and Heartbreak Ridge in Korea.
Watch Video » NEW - Bob Kessler, U.S. Army, 2nd Infantry Division, Forward Observer (Korea): Mr. Kessler describes being shot in the leg and surviving a grenade blast while serving in Korea.
Watch Video » NEW - Bob Kessler, U.S. Army, 2nd Infantry Division, Forward Observer (Korea): Mr. Kessler discusses being wounded along with a majority of his unit while serving as a forward observer in Korea.
Watch Video » NEW - Jesse Rodriguez, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown, CV-10 (WWII): Mr. Rodriguez describes horrific typhoons that he and his crew faced while aboard the USS Yorktown.
Watch Video » NEW - Jesse Rodriguez, U.S. Navy, USS Yorktown, CV-10 (WWII): Mr. Rodriguez describes the power and proficiency of the men that piloted U.S. Hellcats.
Watch Video » NEW - Bob Gibbs, U.S. Navy, Destroyer-USS Barry, Commanding Officer (WWII): Mr. Gibbs describes his experiences of being being trapped with his crew in ice and fog for three days.
Watch Video » NEW - Bob Gibbs, U.S. Navy, Destroyer-USS Barry, Commanding Officer (WWII): Mr. Gibbs discusses destroying two Japanese subs while serving as a commanding officer.
Watch Video » NEW - Cleon Crews, U.S. Navy, Blimp Service, Hedron Sqd., 2-USS LSM (WWII): Mr. Crews describes the duties and effectiveness of converted shrimp boats during WWII.
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