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Nollie Carpenter

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While in combat on Leyte, Nollie Carpenter was awarded a Bronze Star, although he's not sure what he did to deserve it. He did a lot more a little later during the fighting on Luzon. Oh well, not giving it back! (6:54)

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There was one sergeant who had enough points to go home. For some reason, he wanted to go out on one last patrol even though he was excused and waiting on transport. Nollie Carpenter remembers that everyone told him not to do it but he was determined. (4:53)

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Two days after he got to the Philippines, Nollie Carpenter was mustered on the beach when he saw a mob of people. Douglas MacArthur was wading ashore. He declined to reenlist but later had second thoughts about that. He did come back to the Army after a year of logging. (5:42)

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Malaria was almost impossible to avoid. Nollie Carpenter sure had it and it affected him even after he returned home. At least, if you were lucky, you were in a place where the tasty mangoes covered the ground. (5:59)

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After a brief stint as a civilian, Nollie Carpenter returned to the Army and was assigned to Germany. While there, a call went out for volunteers to go to Korea as Forward Observers. A Sergeant could get a 2nd Lieutenant's bars. (1:40)

Norb Studelska

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Norb Studelska's paratrooper unit finally received a mission that would take them from their base in England to the Continent. The task was to secure a drop zone for gliders. They succeeded but the overall mission was a disaster as British troops making the assault were routed. (4:49)

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Norb Studelska had the best foxhole on the block, lined with a nice parachute. But he had to abandon it when German troops surrounded his position. After the Germans broke off the attack, and he was making a supply run, he saw movement in a haystack. (6:17)

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Norb Studelska saw the troop truck behind his tip over. A medic was killed in the wreck and Studelska couldn't believe that, after two months of heavy fighting, he could be killed in a traffic accident. Then, his unit was rushed, totally unequipped and unprepared, into the chaos of the Battle of the Bulge. (4:42)

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Norb Studelska couldn't believe how some of his fellow soldiers would not follow instructions for avoiding frostbite in the Winter of 1944. He also couldn't believe it when two men from his unit did not return a password and were shot dead. He says that was the saddest day of his life. Norb also recalls the death of William (Billy) Vacca, a highly emotional experience for him. (3:45)

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At the end of the war, Norb Studelska's unit set an ambush for a German unit moving nearby, but he couldn't pull the trigger. The man was kneeling and had his arm over his face. (4:24)