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Carolyn Pike

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Army nurse Carolyn Pike arrived in Vietnam and was assigned to a mobile surgical hospital in Tay Ninh. It shared a base with an assault helicopter company and an infantry outfit known as the Manchus. On her first night there, she had a fateful meeting in the officers club. (5:20)

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The casualties could be overwhelming at the surgical hospital in Tay Ninh. Army nurse Carolyn Pike recalls an incident in which the Viet Cong tunneled to an American outpost on a mountain top and nearly wiped out the unit. She also treated the enemy and the local civilians. (2:53)

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She heard helicopters every day and, some nights, the ground would shake from B-52 strikes. The sound of aircraft still gets a reaction from Carolyn Pike today, though not the one you might think. When she first arrived, she had crudely cut her hair short. A visiting MP took a look at it and asked a probing question. (3:12)

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It was a rocket attack. A mad scramble began in the surgical hospital ward where nurse Carolyn Pike was working. The inflatable building began to collapse and shrapnel came flying in. Everyone hurried for the bunkers. (3:06)

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There were protestors waiting when she came home from Vietnam but Army nurse Carolyn Pike just ignored them. What was hard to ignore was the portrayal of nurses in the movie MASH. (3:51)

Carswell Wynne

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Carswell Wynne, a plane captain, recalls two examples of how common and deadly accidents could be on his aircraft carrier, the USS Cowpens, during World War II. (2:25)

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At the end of World War II, Carswell Wynne recalls a conversation with a local Japanese man about how he felt about the atomic bomb. The civilian also suggested one of the main reasons Japan surrendered was because they had run out of much needed scrap metal. (1:05)

Carter Tucker

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The Korean War had started when he graduated high school, and though he had started college, Carter Tucker felt the call to join the Navy. At first he was with the Seabee school but he wanted to go further than California so he volunteered for the unique world of submarine duty. (6:08)

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He had joined because of it, but the Korean War ended while Carter Tucker was in submarine school. Without a shooting war, the vessels were used for intelligence gathering and this nearly led to an icy disaster for him on his first patrol off the coast of Russia. (4:49)

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It was an odd life aboard a submarine. Carter Tucker describes the unique challenges and dangers faced by the crew on an old diesel ship. You could even be done in by your own batteries. (4:49)