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Hilbert Margol

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In the Bavarian town of Wurzburg, truck drivers in Hilbert Margol's unit found some cases of champagne and fruit brandy. He says for a while they were drinking champagne instead of water, and even cleaning the gun bores on their howitzers with it. Later he encountered the vast anti-aircraft batteries around Schweinfurt. (4:37)

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The artillery unit was pushing toward Munich when they were ordered to pull off the road and prepare to fire. There was a peculiar odor in the air as they set up the howitzers. Hilbert Margol and his twin brother Howard walked around to investigate and they stumbled upon the Dachau Concentration Camp. (8:17)

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Hilbert Margol remembers the ride into Munich, with hitchhiking infantry swarming everything with wheels. After a bit of post surrender guard duty, he was back home in America with the only thing he kept from the war, a piece of World War I trench art. (5:45)

Horace Kippels

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Horace "Kip" Kippels describes being part of the second echelon of troops in the invasion of Okinawa, and his time in the area leading up to the anticipated invasion of Japan. (5:44)

Howard Dean

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Howard Dean was an engineering student at Georgia Tech when he was turned down by the Navy. He settled for the Army and they sent him back to Georgia Tech, where he finished his degree, then they sent him to Boston for a Harvard and MIT program studying radar. (5:26)

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Radar officer Howard Dean became a specialist in gun laying radar, a system which linked radar with the fire control on an anti-aircraft battery. The Army wanted his engineering talent at MIT, designing radar units, but he wanted into the shooting war. Eventually he got his orders to ship out for Leyte. (6:19)

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Shortly after the main landing on Leyte, radar officer Howard Dean came ashore. He had no assignment, yet, so they sent him to a nearby anti-aircraft battery. He began to observe gunners on the ships in the bay, who were undisciplined and shooting up the shore when they fired. (5:54)

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Radar officer Howard Dean was in the 12th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion, but he didn't know it yet. He'd arrived in the Pacific with no real assignment, and was attached to an anti-aircraft battery for a while. Then he was told to load a radar unit on a ship and prepare for a landing. Where was that going to be? (6:20)

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The invasion operation became an occupation operation after the war suddenly ended. Howard Dean was in charge of a radar unit, which he had to get off the ship and into a safe place ashore in Japan. He found a Signal Corps station where he could put it, but the officers there took off for leave as soon as he got there. This led to a potentially embarrassing situation. (5:45)

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While on occupation duty in Japan, Howard Dean took a train to Kyoto. The station master tried to clear out an entire car for him, but he refused and insisted the civilians be allowed to stay. Soon after this, he became part of a massive operation to account for all the equipment scattered across the Pacific. (3:57)