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Dr. C.B. Skelton

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He was in his final Army training when the war ended. C.B. Skelton, was then sent to Europe with the Graves Registration Service, where he found possibly the most disorganized unit in the Army. This was due in no small the part to the bad leadership of a series of commanding officers. (This interview made possible with the support of DONALD FAWCETT (Capt.) R) (7:09)

Dr. Gary Hill

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During intense combat, and fearing for the lives of both their patients and themselves, Dr. Gary Hill's PSH is calmed by their spiritual leader. (2:48)

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Dr. Gary Hill reveals the crude and under-equipped nature of the Portable Surgical Hospitals. (1:59)

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Dr. Gary Hill explains the workings of the short-lived Portable Surgical Hospitals of the Army Medical Corps. (3:31)

Dr. Jonathan Swift

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Forty years after the war, when reminiscing with the waist gunner, Jonathan Swift recounts his first mission in which his squad flew to Berlin and experienced early anti-aircraft fire over Heligoland. (3:09)

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Jonathan Swift describes the different kinds of parachutes men used when bailing out of planes. He describes multiple events that occurred at Biggs Field at El Paso, Texas, in which certain chutes either saved or doomed the men in crashing planes. (3:13)

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One weekend when looking for an open pub in London, Jonathan Swift encountered a man named Ferguson who had been shot down earlier that week. Swift and Ferguson went to a hotel bar together, and Ferguson told him the story of his survival and how he got to London in only a week's time. (4:08)

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Jonathan Swift describes the numerous layers of clothing he and his squad wore when up in the air. The freezing temperatures at that altitude made using the relief tube nearly impossible. Swift's comrade Bill Bason (a navigator in a different squad) was confronted with a frozen escape hatch when his plane was coming down. (3:35)

Dr. Merrill Feldman

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Fighting intensely against the SS soldiers, Dr. Feldman narrowly escaped a German sniper. He describes how he got shot in the hand and why he received the Silver Star. (2:04)

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In a dramatic account, Dr. Feldman remembers being assigned to the 2nd Armored Division, climbing on tanks while facing the Germans, and defeating them in and around the Ruhr Valley. (1:39)