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David Harrington

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David Harrington recounts a particularly harrowing experience fighting Viet Cong while his platoon was under heavy fire from RPGs at their company basecamp Camp Rowe. Harrington recounts one of his injuries and a member of his company that came to their rescue in that moment. (8:59)

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David Harrington talks about his shrapnel injury that led to his airlift and hasty surgery. For his time on the scouting mission that led to his injury, he received the Purple Heart and was amazed by one of the fellow recipients of the medal. (7:15)

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David Harrington remembers being sent home on leave only to return to combat in rural Vietnam. One particular experience left him without an escape route in the mountains, hoping for some friendly assistance. (9:26)

David Hirsch

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He'd been working as a mechanic for an airline, so when David Hirsch was drafted, they let him go to the Army Air Corps. There were too many cadets, so he was offered a spot as a gunner and accepted. The aircraft was the latest heavy bomber, the B-29. (6:42)

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Flying out of Guam, David Hirsch was a gunner on a B-29. One mission over Japan went very badly. First, they failed to drop the bombs due to a technical problem, then they were hit by enemy fire and the bail out signal was given over the cold Pacific water. (6:38)

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Though he had survived bailing out over the Pacific, there was still a little war to fight, so B-29 gunner David Hirsch joined another crew and resumed flying over Japan. The firebombing missions and then the atomic bomb missions finally put an end to it. (3:40)

David Kirk

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David Kirk is originally from Alum Creek, West Virginia, and his father was stationed in the Philippines and Europe during World War II. Kirk never thought about also joining the military, and was instead drafted around the time of the Vietnam War. He went to Fort Jackson, South Carolina for basic training and Fort Polk, Louisiana for jungle training. (4:44)

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After his training was finished, Kirk arrived in Pleiku, Vietnam. He was then stationed officially in An Khe, Vietnam and was told that his first mission would quite literally be the next day. (6:18)

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Kirk remembers a close call that he had, as well as a few other mishaps during his missions, such as trouble with his radio. (7:13)

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Kirk didn't have a lot of wildlife experience, but he remembers one time with a cobra encounter. When he returned back to the United States, he went to work for a friend of his in their beauty shop right in his hometown. He gives his reflections and final thoughts about the Vietnam War, and how he wants people to remember it. (4:35)