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Harold Powers

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In 1942, Army draftee Harold Powers volunteered for the paratroopers because he thought the training at Ft. Benning would keep him close to home in South Georgia and the war would be over before he was deployed. That plan did not work. (3:12)

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Part 2 of 4: Newly captured POW Harold Powers noticed that his German captors were both confused and unconcerned about the D-Day invasion happening around them. (7:46)

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Part 4 of 4: After liberation, newly freed POW Harold Powers went into a Czech town to find food. There, an entire regiment of Germans marched up and surrendered to a friend of his. They would not surrender to Czechs and were waiting for an American. (4:53)

Harold Shreiner

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Harold Shreiner did not mind basic. They took breaks, after all. Designated a turret gunner and sent to China, he flew alongside the Flying Tigers. A simple code in his letters kept his wife aware of where he was. (7:05)

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Turret Gunner Harold Shreiner says he had a "good view" from his position while flying in China and "over the Hump." On one flight, though, an unending cloud bank had the crew ready to bail out. (6:21)

Harold Souther

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Harold Souther shares his experiences with an officer's treatment of SS prisoners in Northern Europe (1:00)

Harold Topping

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They still needed men in April of 1945 so Harold Topping went off to basic training in Texas, preparing for the dreaded invasion of Japan. Then two atomic bombs changed everything. (Provided by LifeCairn, Inc.) (5:45)

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The war was over but the 99th Field Artillery was headed to Yokohama for occupation duty. They were slowed by a typhoon which tossed the ship around for four days, vividly recalled here by Harold Topping. (Provided by LifeCairn, Inc.) (2:07)

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As the ship approached Yokohama, a terrible odor hung over the water. Harold Topping reveals what that turned out to be and then tells of the utter devastation wrought by the unrelenting Allied bombing campaign. (Provided by LifeCairn, Inc.) (3:46)

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At first the Japanese civilians were very scared of the occupying American troops, but Harold Topping says that as they realized the Americans weren't going to hurt them, they became helpful. Eventually Topping's unit set up shop at a bombed out air base up north in Hokkaido. (Provided by LifeCairn, Inc.) (3:09)