Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
2:51 | John is called an "angel" by a fellow soldier who John had rescued by pushing his head down during an intense machine gun exchange.
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John encounters a German soldier face to face, and John is forced to make a quick decision as the German soldier grabs John's bayonet.
While in a borrowed German foxhole, John is caught underneath a U.S. Army tank destroyer as it fires all night.
John is called an "angel" by a fellow soldier who John had rescued by pushing his head down during an intense machine gun exchange.
John is strafed by two German fighter planes that are soon shot down by U.S. Army anti-aircraft fire.
John crosses the Elbe River near the end of the war to secure a Russian pistol with the help of a Russian soldier.
John's Company, shortly after entering Germany, comes upon the bodies of over 1,000 Jewish people who have suffered a horrific fate at the hands of German soldiers.
