New Index of Clips NEW - Fred jumps on the eve of D-Day, encounters German soldiers and witnesses a fellow soldier captured and killed.
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 4:49
NEW - Fred enters Carentan on June 12, 1944, transfers a machine gun to a new position during heavy fighting. He sees a fellow soldier next to him shot between the eyes.
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 2:57 NEW - Fred talks about a joke played on a fellow soldier during a brief break in the action. (Caution: Potentially inappropriate material for children)
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 1:52 NEW - Fred talks about having to kill cows for food while in Holland. (Caution: Potentially inappropriate material for children)
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 1:30 NEW - Fred talks about his visit to Hitler's mountain top retreat, Berchtesgaden (Eagles Nest). (Caution: Potentially innapropriate material for children)
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 2:14 NEW - Fred visits a London bar while on leave. He finds a date but is forced to make a quick exit the following morning. (Caution: Potentially inappropriate material for children)
Fred Bahlau, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR / 2:17 NEW - Bob Belcher witnesses a V-2 rocket land near his foxhole, creating a hole large enough to fit a house in.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / .58 NEW - Bob Belcher survives a close call when a flare suddenly goes off, revealing his position to a bunch of German soldiers.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / 3:02 NEW - Bob Belcher is fired upon by a German sniper in a church bell tower. As he attempts to escape, he falls in a vegetable cellar as bullets whiz by him.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / 3:26 NEW - Bob Belcher witnesses a fellow soldier shot multiple times and is with him as he says his last words and dies.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / 1:16 NEW - During occupation duty in Germany, Bob experiences a light moment at a crossroad checkpoint.
Bob Belcher, 3rd Army, 99th Inf. Div., 395th Inf., 3rd Battalion, Co. L, 3rd Platoon / 1:04 NEW - Harold "Hutch" Bobroff, Pharmacist, 1st Class remembers his surprise enlistment in the Navy and how civilian life as a butcher prepared him for the ugly sights and sounds of a Naval operating room.
Harold "Hutch" Bobroff, Pharmacist, 1st Class, US Navy, 3rd Marine Division / 5:20 NEW - From marriage to Marines, Harold "Hutch" Bobroff recalls the series of events that quickly changed his life before seeing action in Iwo Jima.
Harold "Hutch" Bobroff, Pharmacist First Class, US Navy, 3rd Marine Division / 3:55 NEW - Thinking the battle of Guam was over, Harold "Hutch" Bobroff relives the nightmare of being shot by the enemy and how he felt after a young Japanese soldier was killed.
Harold "Hutch" Bobroff, Pharmacist 1st Class, US Navy, 3rd Marine Division / 4:37 NEW - After training on Guam, "Hutch" relives the shocking scene of dead Marines on the island of Iwo Jima, smoking volcanic terrain, and carrying guns he couldn't shoot.
Harold "Hutch" Bobroff, Pharmacist, 1st Class, US Navy, 3rd Marine Division / 6:14 NEW - Gary Campbell survives his helicopter losing power, making a forced landing in a rice paddy as Vietnamese farmers watch.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:29 NEW - Gary Campbell survives a frontal attack by the NVA (North Vietnamese Army), as his helicopter group flies into an intense firefight.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:05 NEW - Gary Campbell discusses a B-52 Arc Light mission that resulted in 138 NVA (North Vietnamese Army) deaths.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:33 NEW - Gary Campbell discusses the discovery of an abandoned NVA (North Vietnamese Army) tunnel system.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:05 NEW - Gary Campbell witnesses a 2nd Lt., standing only ten feet away from him, killed by a sniper round to the forehead.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / :47 NEW - Gary Campbell directs fire support on an enemy position, preventing a NVA (North Vietnamese Army) ambush.
Gary Campbell, 196th Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Div. / 1:32 NEW - While in the Pacific Theater, Demming Fairbanks is grounded from flying due to catching typhus.
Demming Fairbanks, 43rd Bomber Group, 5th Air Force / 1:10 NEW - Leo Goldner, while in the Philippines, interrupts an enemy soldier who emerges from the jungles to rape a USO performer.
Leo Goldner, WESPAC Group / 2:47 NEW - After sleeping among dead Japanese soldiers in the Philippines, 1st. Lt. Leo Goldner saves a life and is rewarded with a new place to live.
Leo Goldner, WESPAC Group / 2:51 NEW - Army candidate Leo Goldner is supposed to be getting hand-to-hand combat training from Brigadier General (then Colonel) Frank Merrill but ends up training him instead.
Leo Goldner, WESPAC Group / 2:14 NEW - 1st Lt. Leo Goldner, who is Jewish, has an amazing encounter in the jungles of the Philippines.
Leo Goldner, WESPAC Group / 3:37 NEW - Tom Kennedy discusses a terrible accident while conducting pillbox and mine training in England.
Tom Kennedy, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, G Co. / 2:17 NEW - Tom Kennedy about holding a wounded German soldier's hand as he dies.
Tom Kennedy, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, G Co. / 1:50 NEW - Tom Kennedy participates in the Battle of Bloody Gulch near Carentan on June 12, 1944.
Tom Kennedy, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, G Co. / 3:49 NEW - Tom Kennedy discusses a tragic recon mission as his jeep hits a mine.
Tom Kennedy, 101st Airborne Division, 506th PIR, G Co. / 2:22 NEW - Marvin prepares for the invasion of Japan but is saved at the last minute by the dropping of the two atomic bombs.
Marvin Newman, US Army, 40th Inf., 160th Reg. / 1:17 NEW - Drenched in the enemy's blood, chemically burned, and watching his friend die, Paratrooper Mario Patruno tells his chilling tale of surviving German attacks.
Mario Patruno, Paratroop Infantry 506 Regiment Company F / 6:05 NEW - Paratrooper Mario Patruno of the 101st Division, recalls hard work and humor of basic training, crawling through pig guts, tasting moonshine, and how a friend lost all his teeth.
Mario Patruno, 101st Division, 506 Regiment, Company F / 3:13 NEW - Lost Paratrooper Mario Patruno recalls outshooting a German soldier, outsmarting an American Major, and how learning to ride horses helped him find his company during a fierce firefight. He describes why he had to use a German gun to fight the enemy.
Mario Patruno, 101st Division, 506 Regiment, Company F / 6:53 NEW - As a member of the OSS, Reed's Japanese interpretor, meets a former childhood friend while in China.
Reed Pelfrey, 101st, 502nd, H Co. / :41 NEW - Sid attempts to rescue a downed pilot in the water as sharks circle him.
Sid Schneider, US Navy, USS John A. Bole, Destroyer / 4:34 NEW - Sid experiences a kamikaze attack on the rear of the USS John A Bole (Destroyer).
Sid Schneider, US Navy, USS John A. Bole, Destroyer / 1:30 NEW - Eli Silverman, a Navy corpsman in the 8th Beach Battalion, witnesses an explosion on a ship carrying Marines during the landing at enemy-held Saipan. The gruesome sites of this event are still with him to this day.
Eli Silverman, USS Knox / 2:11 NEW - Eli Silverman, a Navy corpsman in the 8th Beach Battalion, comes across a wounded Marine on Saipan yelling for help. He quickly realizes that the wounds are worse than he originally thought, and has never been able to forget the man’s face.
Eli Silverman, USS Knox / 0:45
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