Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
1:51 | Robert Walker recollects an emotional encounter while making his way from the European to the Pacific front near the end of World War II.
Keywords : Pacific Theater atomic bomb VJ Day (Victory in Japan Day)
Robert Walker recalls his first combat experience and a valuable lesson learned while stationed in Boxted, England, in 1943.
Robert Walker remembers a surprise attack by a German bomber on his air base in Boxted, England, in 1943.
Robert Walker, a bomb loader, describes a hair-raising incident with a temperamental bomb.
While stationed near Bastogne, Belgium, during the Battle of the Bulge, Robert Walker describes the terrible weather conditions that kept his bomber squadron grounded and unable to help the troops in the trenches.
Robert Walker recollects an emotional encounter while making his way from the European to the Pacific front near the end of World War II.
