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Alvin Waldron

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Any warship is a dangerous place. Alvin Waldron was on watch when he heard a sound that he had not heard since the family cow fell into a ravine and broke her neck. He grabbed a flashlight and what he found was a gruesome sight. (6:49)

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It was a silly injury. As Alvin Waldron jumped over and into a hatch to slide down the ladder, he caught his foot and went tumbling down, banging his head and knee. After a day he felt fine, but like so many others with minor wartime injuries, years later that knee started barking. (3:13)

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As he describes trying to get a towed ship off a reef with tugboats, Alvin Waldron opines that, while somebody definitely wrote the book, nobody ever went by the book. Things just didn't work that way. (3:35)

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Making port in Pearl Harbor, long after the surprise attack, Alvin Waldron had to ferry ammunition through a six inch deep oil slick that still fouled the water. It was very slow going in the muck. (2:20)

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Like so many in the military on so many fronts, Alvin Waldron recalls a "3 O' Clock Charlie" who flew over his ship every night at 3 AM. The ship lost every qualified Signalman except him, so Waldron became good friends with the coffeepot. (6:29)

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There was always something going on. Alvin Waldron recalls a balky tanker and a refrigerated ship full of meat that was no longer refrigerated in the tropical heat. And he explains why you never step into the "bite" of the line. (6:42)

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No one stood around thinking about being a hero, says Alvin Waldron. When there was a need, men just acted, like the Coxswain who jumped onto a smoldering load of bad ammunition with an axe. (5:09)

Ambrose Fayard

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Ambose Fayard's mother passed away when he was a lad and he nearly wound up in an orphanage. He was a goalkeeper on an Irish hurling team when his cousin came from Chicago and said they needed a goalie there. So it was off to America. (2:57)

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Four lanes going one way! Ambrose Fayard could not get over how big and different everything was in America. He had come over from Ireland and was a Green Card holder which, as it turned out, did not protect him from the draft. After basic training, the Army made him a cook. (5:52)

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The troop transport was packed with thousands of men and endured a typhoon on the way to Vietnam. Army cook Ambrose Fayard was assigned to an artillery battery up in the Central Highlands. He marveled at the way Agent Orange cleared out the brush where a fire base was needed. (4:46)