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NEW - Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division: Ed LaPorta remembers, in vivid detail, the incredibly difficult 85 mile trek from his prison camp to the death camp at Buchenwald, and the horror he faced there. Watch Video » NEW - Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division: Ed LaPorta recalls how he and his fellow POWs would turn the table on their captors when their camp is visited by delegates representing the Geneva Convention. Watch Video » NEW - Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division: Ed LaPorta and other POWs find a way to help the war effort from behind the barbed wire of a German prison camp. Watch Video » NEW - Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division: Ed LaPorta recalls how he was captured by a German unit and the torture he endured during his first few weeks in captivity. Watch Video » NEW - Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division: Ed LaPorta is wounded in the leg by flying shrapnel and recalls his attempts to repair his damaged leg. Watch Video » NEW - Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division: Ed LaPorta risks his life to save a terribly wounded soldier during the campaign in North Africa. Watch Video » NEW - Ed LaPorta, 1st Armored Division: Ed LaPorta remembers the harrowing landing at Oran to start the US Army's campaign in North Africa. Watch Video » NEW - John Vlass, 526th Ordinance Company: John Vlass takes German heavy rocket fire during the Battle of the Bulge. Watch Video » NEW - John Vlass, 526th Ordinance Company: John Vlass professes his admiration for the destructive capabilities of the German 88. Watch Video » NEW - John Vlass, 526th Ordinance Company: John Vlass recalls his arrival in England and his observations of the landings at Omaha Beach on D-Day. Watch Video » NEW - Neill 'Jack' Cox, 36th Infantry Division: Neill 'Jack' Cox discovers the irony of war when a German 88 round sends him running for cover. Watch Video » NEW - Neill 'Jack' Cox, 36th Infantry Division: Neill 'Jack' Cox and his unit face heavy resistance as they cross the Siegfried line and into Germany. Watch Video » NEW - Neill 'Jack' Cox, 36th Infantry Division: Neill 'Jack' Cox and a friend dive into heavy artillery and machine gun fire to save an injured soldier. Watch Video » NEW - Neill 'Jack' Cox, 36th Infantry Division: Neill 'Jack' Cox tells of his machine gun squad's violent encounter with a large SS unit in the French wilderness. Watch Video » NEW - Neill 'Jack' Cox, 36th Infantry Division: Neill "Jack" Cox tells his story of a typical draftees experience, going from college to the front lines. Watch Video » NEW - Robert Benton, 36th Fighter Group: Robert Benton is assigned to teach new pilots how to fly the P-47 but encounter trouble before he even leaves the runway. Watch Video » NEW - Robert Benton, 36th Fighter Group: Robert Benton catches a break when a superior officer saves his life. Watch Video » NEW - Robert Benton, 36th Fighter Group: After taking anti-aircraft fire during a mission over France, Robert Benton finds returning to his base in England extremely difficult. Watch Video » NEW - Robert Benton, 36th Fighter Group: Robert Benton flies air cover over the beaches at Normandy on D-Day. Watch Video » NEW - James Moore, 2nd Armored Division: James Moore hazards the cold to bring tanks to the front during the Battle of the Bulge. Watch Video » NEW - James Moore, 2nd Armored Division: James Moore lands at Omaha beach on D+2 and recounts the journey from Normandy, to Berlin, and back home. Watch Video » NEW - Ralph Turner, 339th Fighter Squadron: Ralph Turner, and the other mechanics in his squad, receive their first P38s, much to their delight. Watch Video » NEW - Cal Stephenson, 5th Marine Regiment: Cal Stepehnson sees the end of the war from the island of Okinawa and recounts his path home from the nation of Japan. Watch Video » NEW - Cal Stephenson, 5th Marine Regiment: Cal Stephenson faces treacherous waters and hordes of Japanese soldiers as he and his regiment invade the island fortress of Okinawa. Watch Video » NEW - Cal Stephenson, 5th Marine Regiment: Cal Stephenson remembers his job as a radioman in the 1st Marine Division during the bloody campaign at Peliliu. Watch Video » Rocky Bleier, Americal Division (23rd Infantry Division): Rocky Bleier remembers making use of his running back skills to retrieve a precious gift from home during a Vietnamese artillery attack. (4-time Super Bowl winning Pittsburgh Steeler. www.rockybleier.com) Watch Video » Rocky Bleier, Americal Division (23rd Infantry Division): Rocky Bleier remembers the "foxhole prayer" that he made as he lay wounded after a grenade explosion in Vietnam. (4-time Super Bowl winning Pittsburgh Steeler. www.rockybleier.com) Watch Video » Rocky Bleier, Americal Division (23rd Infantry Division): Rocky Bleier tells his story of determination--from the football fields of the U.S. to the rice-patties of Vietnam, and back again despite a life-changing injury he suffered during the war. (4-time Super Bowl winning Pittsburgh Steeler.) Watch Video » Christa Petersen, Civilian: Christa Petersen's father finally returns from the war, but he is irrevocably different. Watch Video » Christa Petersen, Civilian: Christa Petersen recalls living in fear of Iron Henry, a deadly American war machine that lived in the skies over Germany. Watch Video » Christa Petersen, Civilian: Christa Petersen speaks to the understanding and general knowledge German citizens had of the evils of the Third Reich. Watch Video » Christa Petersen, Civilian: Christa Petersen meets American soldiers for the first time, but they aren't the average unit. Watch Video » Christa Petersen, Civilian: Christa Petersen remembers an encounter with an American soldier that led to a coke and a misunderstanding. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison recounts the destruction of his battalion on February 26, 1968. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison describes treating a wounded fellow advisor in the open during heavy fire from Viet Cong forces on February 18 of the Tet Offensive. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison recalls observing the reality and immediacy of death as his unit assaults a Viet Cong company during the Second Phase Tet Offensive. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison remembers being caught behind a palm tree trunk while being fired upon by a Viet Cong. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison talks about going into a particulary dangerous area of Vietnam and finding trouble. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison discusses the toll that casualties take on infantry units during combat. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison talks about a time his unit cornered a Viet Cong Main Force Battalion during the Tet Offensive. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison describes the effects of napalm on the enemy and the landscape during the Vietnamese War. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 9th Infantry Division (ARVN): Stuart Jamison recalls meeting Lt. Hetherington, Staff Sgt. Pinkham, Maj. Huynhl, Sgt. Maj. Tau and 200 hostile Viet Cong on his first day on the job as an advisor to Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers at Xa Xiem. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison, 2nd Infantry Division: Stuart Jamison recalls the sights and sounds from patrolling the Korean Demilitarized Zone during the Cold War. Watch Video » Christa Petersen, Civilian: Christa Petersen remembers coming upon the remains of a bomb shelter during the campaign in Germany when she was only a child. Watch Video » NEW - J.C. Fitzpatrick, 8th Air Force: J.C. Fitzpatrick flies from England, over Germany, to airbases in Russia, fights with the German Air Force, then has to make the long trek back to England. Watch Video » NEW - JC Fitzpatrick, 8th Air Force: J.C. Fitzpatrick flies in formation over Normandy on D-Day and gets lost in the dark later that night. Watch Video » |