Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
1:54 | Ed Callahan ponders the psychological reasons behind why certain soldiers were more brazen than perhaps necessary on the battlefield.
Ed Callahan remembers an incident with a bouncing grenade on an island in the Pacific.
On the island of New Guinea in 1944, Ed Callahan recalls his company capturing a dozen Japanese soldiers and the resulting conflict that arose about what to do with the prisoners who "had been eating our dead".
Ed Callahan describes his first combat parachute drop into the jungles of New Guinea in 1944.
On the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, Ed Callahan remembers a firefight with Japanese troops, and how combat affected the local people.
Ed Callahan remembers the intense combat his company faced on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines in February of 1945, beginning with a beachfront landing under Japanese fire.
Ed Callahan describes the close quarters on the small island of Corregidor and some of the resulting problems that arose with both enemy and friendly troops.
Ed Callahan talks about the various means troops used to deal with Japanese caves in the Pacific.
While taking hill after hill from Japanese troops on Corregidor, battles for which he earned a Bronze Star, Ed Callahan recalls a Japanese counter-measure which injured him and many of his fellow soldiers.
Ed Callahan describes the eerie feeling that accompanied preparing for bayonette warfare.
Ed Callahan ponders the psychological reasons behind why certain soldiers were more brazen than perhaps necessary on the battlefield.
