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Jimmy Adams

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Jimmy Adams remembers how a fellow pilot, Shorty Holland, became "quite a hero" by landing his C-54 after it had become damaged by severe weather while flying over "The Hump" between China and India. (1:13)

Joan Praet

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Joan Praet, an Army Nurse on the home front, relates how it was growing up in FDR's home town and how he would attend church there during the war. (2:48)

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Joan Praet, an Army nurse on the home front, recalls her enlistment and training in 1944. (7:51)

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Joan Praet, an Army nurse on the home front, describes her experience treating wounded paratroopers in Jackson, Mississippi (8:18)

Joe Bruckner

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His feeling was that we needed to be involved in Vietnam to stop the spread of Communism. Citadel cadet Joe Bruckner knew he would be going to the war. He recalls his training experience, especially the sobering night ambush exercise. (4:09)

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As he flew into Vietnam and looked over the expanse of green forest, Joe Bruckner saw a puff of smoke rising from the vegetation. Another thing that gave him pause was the look on the faces of departing soldiers when he landed. He was assigned to an advisory team as the assistant intelligence officer, where he spent a lot of time in the air looking for enemy activity. (5:48)

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Joe Bruckner describes his daily life as an advisor to a Vietnamese unit, his relationships with his counterparts, and the environs he worked in. There were Montagnard villages in his area and he had a high regard for those people, who were mistreated by both the French and the Vietnamese. (7:08)

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Joe Bruckner was the assistant intelligence officer, but he got the lead's job and his jeep after a self inflicted wound got the man evacuated. There was constant turnover as people rotated in and out, including one young soldier whose behavior raised suspicion. (2:26)

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The area around Da Lat was beautiful, reminding Joe Bruckner of home in North Georgia. He saw it mostly from the air in small aircraft on intelligence missions. On "sniffer missions," they would try to draw fire in a Huey and then he would fire a grenade launcher as the gunships dropped from above to attack. This nearly got him in trouble as a rookie. (4:40)

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As a member of a small advisory team in Vietnam, Joe Bruckner had a lot more freedom than an officer in the field. He visited his wife in Thailand, and then, in a most unusual arrangement, she came to join him where he was stationed. (5:49)