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Bud Alley

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After he returned from Vietnam, there was an airline strike so it took days for Bud Alley to make it home. When he did, he had trouble adjusting to civilian life. Between the nightmares and the drinking, he knew he needed help, but to the VA, he had a haircut and a job so there was nothing wrong with him. (5:09)

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Bud Alley's best days in Vietnam were the days he returned to find that everyone had made it back alive. He was encouraged by daily correspondence with his family, which he stores chronologically so he can reconstruct his experience. He regrets that he is still seen as a baby killer by some, but he says that the Vietnam vets are the real greatest generation because they had to put up with all that crap. As for the future, stay informed and vote carefully. (6:38)

Bud Ellis

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Bud Ellis grew up in the small Iowa town named as home by Radar O’Reilly on the TV show MASH. Working in the local factories didn’t appeal to him so he enlisted in the Air Force. 12 Days later the Korean War broke out. (6:14)

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B-29 Radio operator Bud Ellis was retrained in electronic countermeasures before his deployment. His job was to jam enemy systems by broadcasting noise on their control frequencies. One problem was, where was he going to sit on the plane? (10:18)

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Bud Ellis and his B-29 crew mates had almost no resistance from enemy fighters during their runs over Korea. That did not stop him from wondering what would happen to him in the frigid cold below should he have to bail out clad only in the flight suit he wore on board. (7:19)

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After the Korean Truce, Bud Ellis landed in Tokyo on a test mission and the ground crew could not find a single maintenance stand in the airport. A chance look inside a closed hangar revealed why. (3:41)

Bud Sosebee

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Bud Sosebee was drafted just after high school and eventually became an infantry radio operator. Two things he wanted to do in the military did not materialize for him but he achieved both, eventually, becoming both a pilot and an engineer. (6:03)

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Bud Sosebee got a last bit of training in England in rescue school, where he was impressed with the stoic English. Less impressed with Le Havre when he deployed there, he scrounged some souvenirs from a German rocket site. One of them made a funny little noise. (5:02)

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Near Aachen, Germany, Bud Sosebee saw part of the Maginot Line with the huge pillboxes he'd seen in movies. Later he was at the famous last bridge at Remagen when it was finally destroyed. His unit had to cross on a pontoon bridge and in the next town, there was a most welcome sight, a Red Cross coffee and doughnut truck. (4:45)

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It sounded cruel, come out or we will set this gasoline on fire and burn you out. But it worked and the Germans came out of the bunker where they were holed up, without a loss on either side. As they moved on, Bud Sosebee found a pile of German cash in a shelled out building and gathered it up. After the war, he put it to good use. (3:02)