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Les Blair
WWII
| USS Pennsylvania
While working on the gun crew on the USS Pennsylvania, Blair was fortunate to have many technological upgrades to the guns before going back into battle. (:43)
Blair recalls how he met his wife after accompanying a shipmate to a few bars in downtown Los Angeles. (1:09)
Les Carter
Cold War
| 350th Infantry Regiment, 88th Division
Growing up in a military family, Les Carter considered going to West Point to be his duty. His first assignment took him to Austria as part of the Cold War deterrent. (2:10)
Les Carter was among the first military advisors to Vietnam, assigned to Pleiku in the fifties to help the Vietnamese develop a curriculum for their military academy. (3:50)
When Les Carter arrived in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive, his battalion’s District was very unstable. By the time he left, nearly all enemies had been killed or driven off. That was the assessment of a North Vietnamese commander. (5:29)
Although Les Carter’s Airborne soldiers were paratroopers, they never used parachutes in Vietnam, relying on helicopters to deploy and fight. As in modern conflicts, booby traps were the main source of casualties. (7:01)
Working closely with local forces was the key to Les Carter’s success in stabilizing his District in Vietnam. He received a Silver Star for one action, but he wonders why that particular one. (6:31)
Les Carter knew his district was secure when he recovered a letter from a North Vietnamese commander lamenting defeat. He also knew it came at a cost to civilians, such as the group of young nurses who walked into an ambush. (6:17)
When Les Carter traveled by helicopter to the action in Vietnam, he often had the local Vietnamese District Chief along. A doctor or a chaplain also might be on board, along with the crew of four. (3:20)
Lester Brown
WWII
| 27th Field Artillery Regiment
Lester Brown, part of a Service Battalion, describes digging foxholes while under enemy artillery fire at Anzio. (3:30)
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