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William Bates

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William Bates joins an amphibious truck unit and after training, participates in the Battle of Anzio. (2:55)

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William Bates tries to make his way back to his unit after a month in a field hospital. (3:38)

William Beazley

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William Beazley recalls a baseball game interrupted on a seemingly deserted Pacific island (1:17)

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William Beazley recounts his experiences with Japanese borders in the Pacific (1:49)

William Butler

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William Butler describes the staggering number of Allied aircraft that passed though his air base in England, many to never make it back. (3:09)

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William Butler, an aircraft mechanic, talks about how war-weary aircraft were transformed into very specialized weapons. (1:45)

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William Butler recalls a very sneaky method of attack utilized by German bombers over England. (:42)

William Campbell

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Like many other young boys, William Campbell had built model planes and dreamed of flying. When war came to America in 1941, he enlisted in the Air Corps and shipped out to Europe as an aerial gunner. (4:17)

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From the very first mission on, aerial gunner William Campbell experienced intense fire from anti-aircraft guns. The flak was constant during the bomb runs and one piece found him during a mission when he had just seen the adjacent plane blown out of the sky. It was a fragment from the same burst. (4:20)

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Aerial gunner William Campbell describes the immense spectacle of D-Day, when ships filled the channel between England and Normandy. His bomber squadron's job was to hit German ground troops as they rushed to the coast. (2:07)