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Fred Lott

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The end was near. American GI's had moved through Leipzig and were pushing deeper into Germany. There was a meeting with Russian forces, which drew a lot of American brass hoping for a photo op. Fred Lott's unit was being held in reserve and they had a softball game going when word came of the German surrender. (4:32)

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Fred Lott didn't have enough points to return home after the German surrender, so he extended and transferred to a finance outfit in a German resort town. It turned out to be a great last assignment. (5:13)

Fred Miller

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He had enough ROTC to know that he didn't want to be in the infantry. Fred Miller was a good student and the Army Air Corps decided he would make a good navigator. After his training, he joined a B-17 crew and arrived in England in the spring of 1945. (4:17)

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It was April in 1945 when B-17 navigator Fred Miller arrived in England. The Nazis were on the ropes and the handful of missions he flew helped ensure it was over. (7:14)

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After the war, Fred Miller didn't have nearly enough points to return home, so he was put in a unit that ferried people around the continent. There were no airlines at that point, so it was a badly needed service. He found some time to travel to England and even attended the University of Aberdeen for a while. (3:46)

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In post war England, Fred Mills was a security officer trying to regulate air traffic between there and the continent. There was a big problem with black market money exchange and he came up with a good idea to fight it, but it made him unpopular with the pilots. (6:20)

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B-17 navigator Fred Miller explains the variables he had to deal with while keeping the plane on course. It all happened so fast when you were on a mission that you had to be really sharp to do the job. He also had to toggle the bombs on certain missions without a bombardier. (3:33)

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Once the war in the Pacific was over and there was no threat of being shipped there, Fred Miller could enjoy England like a tourist. The English girls treated the Yanks like movie stars and this was great, until their boyfriends came home. (5:15)

Fred Mills

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Helicopter pilot Fred Mills was "really busy" flying medical evacuations in Vietnam. When trees prevented a landing, he dropped a chainsaw to troops, and he used a map with no borders to evacuate from Cambodia. It was "the dirty part of the war." (8:04)

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Navy Vet Fred Mills joined the Army Reserve and then the regular Army, which trained him as an aviator, fulfilling his original enlistment goal. His first stop was post-war Korea where he was given a mysterious mission that did not happen. (11:53)