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George Crockett

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George Crockett remembers the worst day of Vietnam, when he was in an intense firefight and injured from a bullet. (6:17)

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George Crockett remembers the day he and his company were ambushed by enemy combatants. After being wounded by a bullet, he had to think quickly to get himself to safety. (5:53)

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George Crockett remembers encountering enemy forces carrying morphine on one of his last nights in country. Growing up a hunter, he was equipped with the capability to succeed in Vietnam. (4:23)

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After leaving the Marine Corps, George Crockett found work doing what he loved in the outdoors. Looking back on his time in the military, he is grateful for the structure it provided him. (5:11)

George Culpepper

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George Culpepper sits in the water of the Surigao Strait and watches as two Japanese naval task forces pass him by in the night. (4:50)

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George Culpepper, aboard a Navy submarine chaser, has a close encounter with a Kamikaze in Leyte Gulf. (4:17)

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George Culpepper remembers picking up three Phillipine civilians who had been floating on the open sea in a small raft. (2:25)

George Ferkes

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He was married and in graduate school but when his deferment no longer protected him from the draft, George Ferkes enlisted in the Air Force and learned to fly. He was assigned as a forward air controller and began training for Vietnam. (5:10)

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The base was at Quang Tri, up near the DMZ. George Ferkes was a new forward air controller, or FAC, whose job was to support the South Vietnamese forces in the area and their American advisors. (5:07)

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Operation Lam Son 719 was an attempt by the South Vietnamese forces to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail and disrupt the supply of Communist forces in the South. George Ferkes supported them by calling in air strikes where needed. The campaign went so badly that, eventually, he was calling in strikes to destroy abandoned armor. (3:56)