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Ken Johnson
WWII
| 101st Airborne, 506 PIR, H Company
In this dramatic account, Ken Johnson tells how he was rescued from a shell hole after fighting off German troops and where he was taken next. (1:24)
Assigned to H company, Ken Johnson became a machine gunner. He describes how he felt about the new dangers he faced and what his commanding officer said to him before battle. (1:31)
After seizing a bridge from the Germans in Holland, Ken Johnson had his strangest experience, being dispatched to an area where other troops were withdrawing. He tells why they warned him and his platoon. (3:02)
As artillery bursts lit up the sky, Ken Johnson brought a chicken back to eat in his shell hole. He relives the moments he jumped into the hole and how his helmet saved his life. (1:23)
Loaded down with equipment, paratrooper Ken Johnson had to be helped into his seat on the plane. In this account, he relives his first jump at an incredible speed and getting injured in the air. (3:01)
Ken Jordan
WWII
| 1253rd Engineer Combat Battalion
While serving at a prisoner of war camp, Ken Jordan recalls the horror of finding a mass grave nearby which had been used by German soldiers to dispose of the bodies of Allied soldiers and local citizens. (1:50)
Ken Jordan recalls getting pulled into a surprise celebration while on a reconnaissance mission in Brunswick, Germany, in 1945. (1:21)
Serving as a combat engineer during World War II, Ken Jordan describes two close calls with shrapnel during the crossing of the Rhine River and during a German artillery attack. (3:55)
Ken Jordan remembers uncovering German booby-traps in Aachen, Germany, in 1945. (1:50)
Ken Meyer
WWII
| USS LST-994
Draftee Ken Meyer headed to Navy boot camp in March of 1944. During induction, he was given a signal test and he was lost so he just gave random answers. He scored so well, the Navy made him a signalman. (3:48)
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