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Jim Murphy

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It was a former luxury liner but the Atlantic crossing was anything but luxurious. Jim Murphy had something in his duffel bag to help fight the boredom and he wound up entertaining the whole ship with it. He was also one of the lucky ones who wasn't seasick. (6:09)

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Just weeks off the ship, Jim Murphy was in a jeep driving his forward observer team up the Rhone Valley. At Barr in France, his lieutenant was killed. Along with the sergeant on the team, they fulfilled their mission for the rest of the war. (5:52)

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Forward observer Jim Murphy was alone in an outpost on Christmas in 1944, watching a German outpost where they were watching him. A runner brought him some hot food, which he greatly appreciated but, later that night, he became severely ill. It was not the food. (9:01)

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Jim Murphy describes the job of a forward observer during the push on Germany. They had bulky radios and strung a lot of telephone wire, the only two means of communicating with the battery. They also took German fire from mortars and the dreaded 88 mm guns. (2:44)

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His unit was moving fast at the end of the war and Jim Murphy wound up in Austria. He didn't have nearly enough points for discharge, so he returned to the States to prepare for the invasion of Japan. Then came the news that seemed like a miracle from heaven. (3:03)

Jim Paine

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Jim Paine gives his impressions of what it was like to be under artillery fire (3:00)

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Infantryman Jim Paine recalls a consistent theme for those who died (1:17)

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Jim Paine stands guard over a hospital in France while being wounded (1:30)

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Jim Paine recounts being the only survivor after a tragic incident in France (1:27)

Jim Petrakos

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Jim Petrakos remembers taking part in an air assault across the Rhine River, a mission during which several fellow airmen were shot down. (3:40)