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Harry McMahon
WWII
| 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division
If it was artificial, the Marines were probably eating it. Harry McMahon was in charge of the commissary and he remembers the dreary chow they had in the Pacific. But, sometimes, you could schmooze sailors and get loaded down with treats from the hold, like ice cream. (Caution: strong language) (3:48)
It was eerie when Tokyo Rose told you where you were and what unit you were in. Harry McMahon says he and his fellow Marines grew to hate her. After the war, when he was on occupation duty, he toured the A-Bomb site in Nagasaki. It's safe, he was told. (4:12)
George Sarros
WWII
| LST-515
George Sarros was just six months away from graduating high school but there was a war on and Uncle Sam needed him. He managed to get sent to the Navy instead of the Army because he "didn't feel like walking." He was assigned to a brand new LST and sailed off to England. (4:56)
It was good duty down in the engine room. It was four hours on, twelve hours off for George Sarros with no paint chipping up on deck. Although his captain was aloof, he didn't sweat the small stuff, like being back late from leave. (4:14)
It was just a training exercise, a dry run for the upcoming invasion of Normandy. Exercise Tiger took place on the English coast at a place called Slapton Sands. It was attacked by German E-Boats which had slipped through naval defenses. George Sarros, a sailor on an LST, describes the action and his captain's efforts to rescue men from the frigid water. (9:13)
The LST carried Army engineers so it wasn't in the first wave of the Normandy landing. Once the beach was secure, it was time to unload men and equipment and load up with casualties to return to England. There were also paratroopers who had jumped before the landing and George Sarros listened to their tales and took a look at their souvenirs. (4:34)
LST-515 made 52 trips between England and Normandy after the initial one on D-Day. German prisoners were carried to England on the ship and George Sarros heard the younger ones saying that Germany was going to win the war but an older one was glad he was out of it. (5:34)
George Sarros came home after the war, met a girl and moved to Hawaii to be with her. The marriage lasted for 46 years but Hawaii was too expensive. (5:36)
Carl Beck
WWII
| 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
At only seventeen years of age, Carl Beck enlisted and went to Toccoa, GA where he went through airborne training. It was 1943 and the Allies were building up the resources to reclaim Europe from the Nazis. Finally in June of 1944, the time came. (5:23)
In the middle of the night, thousands of paratroopers loaded into C-47's for the crossing into Normandy. Carl Beck was just a teenager but he was ready. His plane was hit by flak when it neared the drop zone and the jump was rushed, resulting in scattered men and equipment. Part 1 of 2. (9:51)
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