Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
2:13 | Sherburn Searl tells a story of how quickly and arbitrarily tragedy could strike during wartime.
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While his infantry regiment was making their way through France in 1944, Sherburn Searl remembers his first firefight and a few of the lives that were lost.
Sherburn Searl describes the constant threat of artillery fire while heading through Europe into Germany in 1944.
After a German artillery shell exploded dangerously close to him, Sherburn Searl praises the speed at which his fellow soldiers treated his life-threatening injury.
Sherburn Searl tells a story of how quickly and arbitrarily tragedy could strike during wartime.
