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Paul Berry
Operation Desert Storm
| 514th Ambulance Company, 36th Medical Battalion
Paul Berry's squad from the 514th Ambulance Company was attached to a POW camp for Iraqis. It was just across the border in Saudi Arabia and they were there to provide medical care and triage the incoming prisoners. He always asked anyone he examined if they spoke English. One soldier said in perfect English, "No, I don't speak English." This started quite a scene. (7:11)
While treating Iraqi prisoners during Desert Storm, medic Paul Berry had a couple of experiences that really disturbed him. One was having to peel the skin from a badly burned soldier. The other was when a group of children were brought in. They had been hit by a cluster bomb. (Caution: strong language) (5:42)
They were supposed to be getting eight bodies but twelve body bags came in. Paul Berry was in the Saudi desert next to the Iraqi border and he was fortunate he didn't have to deal with those extra four bags. (3:08)
It was a bad sandstorm. It blew away all the tents and injured one soldier's cornea. For Paul Berry it was just another fact of life in the desert, like scorpions. His ambulance company was the designated "dirty" company that kept going in case of a chemical or nuclear attack and, as the youngest private, he had a special duty that no one would want. (Caution: strong language) (8:43)
As his unit's role in Desert Storm was winding down, Paul Berry received a mountain of mail and gifts in a long overdue mail call. It was so much that he came up with something nice he could do for everybody. (Caution: strong language) (4:37)
Not long before he left Saudi Arabia after Desert Storm, Paul Berry created a lot of trouble for himself when he did something he thought was no big deal. He called his mama. (6:13)
Paul Berry saved a few t-shirts from his time in the Army but there is one that is special. From the Desert Storm deployment with the 514th Ambulance Company, a shirt that only a select few have. (5:49)
Fred VanLaningham
WWII
| Multiple Units
Once Fred VanLaningham decided he was going to join the Navy, he had to get his parents permission because he was only seventeen. No way, you must graduate first. So he went to see if the principal could help him. (5:16)
After boot camp at Great Lakes, Fred VanLaningham had excellent test scores because his high school principal altered the physics course to prep young men for military tests. He had his pick of training locations and headed to aircraft mechanics school. (6:07)
His training completed, Fred VanLaningham joined a special composite squadron of fighters and torpedo bombers as an aviation machinist's mate. He had dual roles as a mechanic and a gunner. (5:47)
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