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Watch Video » 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 » Clayton Byrd remembers the danger of showering while in the field Watch Video » Clayton Byrd shares his favorite war story about his friend, Chet Markowski Watch Video » William Lubbeck, author of At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North, recalls combat on the Russian front when the German Army surrounded the Russian Army under the command of General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov. Watch Video » William Lubbeck, author of At Leningrad's Gates: The Combat Memoirs of a Soldier with Army Group North, tells of the nature of the treatment German soldiers received at the hands of the Red Army troops. Watch Video » During intense combat, and fearing for the lives of both their patients and themselves, Dr. Gary Hill's PSH is calmed by their spiritual leader. Watch Video » Arthur Crowe recalls stumbling upon a German rally point while the 9th Infantry moves to isolate the German troops on the north end of the Cherbourg peninsula. Watch Video » Arthur Crowe recalls how he watched from a plateau as a German unit, isolated in the winter wilderness, is targeted by artillery and fighter planes on strafing runs. Watch Video » Frank Pomroy recounts the injury of friend and fellow Marine, Ben Coffee, while in combat on Peleliu. Watch Video » NEW - From an island off the coast of Iwo Jima, H.T. Maclin and others watch the Marines attempt to climb the slopes of Mt. Suribachi. Watch Video » Artillery observer Arthur Crowe tells of his unusual experience targeting a single enemy soldier in Normandy Watch Video » Thomas Fitzgibbons remembers the atrocities of war in Northern Italy Watch Video » Harold Souther shares his experiences with an officer's treatment of SS prisoners in Northern Europe Watch Video » Raymond Murray recalls an incident between a Frenchman and an SS chaplain in Normandy Watch Video » Dale Barker tells of Japanese trickery on Guam Watch Video » Burt Vardeman loses his tail gunner over the Adriatic Sea when their bomber loses engines after a flak filled mission. Watch Video » Burt Vardeman goes through the typical day of a member of a B-24 bomber crew during the war. Watch Video » Denis Payne describes his experience during a German bombing raid in London (the Blitz) and of witnessing a sight that convinced him that England would win the war Watch Video » Jim Paine stands guard over a hospital in France while being wounded Watch Video » Ray Rogers recalls the Germans' unfortunate choice of escape vehicles during an artillery attack in France Watch Video » Jason Sedam tells of a cease-fire to allow food drops to the Dutch Watch Video » John Dyer gives his impressions of the attack on Pearl Harbor Watch Video » Herbert Braselton remembers the time when a German sub surfaced in the middle of an Allied convoy on the way to North Africa Watch Video » William Beazley recalls a baseball game interrupted on a seemingly deserted Pacific island Watch Video » Joe Peoples talks about how he shot down a German fighter plane himself as his company took a German village. Watch Video » Dave Williams recounts an attempt to get a photo of a Russian female officer. Watch Video » Jim Fletcher discovers the fate of refugees who fled the Japanese invasion. Watch Video » Gordon Yeager repeats a story told to him by a Navy officer about the importance of keeping your pants on while on a boat. Watch Video » Gordon Yeager retells the story told to him of a dud shell hitting the U.S.S. Ludlow. Watch Video » Frank Long talks about the dangers involved in catapulting aircraft off of the U.S.S. Trenton. Watch Video » Hughes Davault remembers serving as a fighter squadron medic and witnessing terrible plane crashes. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray) Watch Video » Hughes Davault talks about having to "toughen up" as a medic in the South Pacific. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray) Watch Video » Hughes Davault remembers delivering a brief message for a soldier on his deathbed. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray) Watch Video » Hughes Davault recalls the callous treatment of a Japanese airman's dead body. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray) Watch Video » Richard Eaton and other Airborne soldiers take a leisurely cruise across the Atlantic. Watch Video » John Davis recalls a run in with deadly chlorine gas in a submarine on the bottom of the ocean. Watch Video » John Davis experiences, first hand, training with US Marines and their response to the cramped condition of a submarine. Watch Video » William Bates digs himself in next to a bridge only to have other infantrymen covet his hole. Watch Video » William Bates relates the speed of the war once the invasion of Italy was a success. Watch Video » William Bates along with other infantrymen take over a house in Germany for a night, much to the protest of the German owner. Watch Video » Christa Petersen remembers coming upon the remains of a bomb shelter during the campaign in Germany when she was only a child. Watch Video » Stuart Jamison discusses the toll that casualties take on infantry units during combat. Watch Video » Christa Petersen remembers an encounter with an American soldier that led to a Coke and a misunderstanding. Watch Video » Christa Petersen meets American soldiers for the first time, but they aren't the average unit. Watch Video » Jack Brantley recalls the lack of rations in his battalion and what they ate to survive the Battle of Normandy. Watch Video » Jack Brantley remembers crossing the Atlantic from New York to England, and the drama between. Watch Video » Dick Arnold remembers his role in the Battle of the Bulge as a radio operator, and becoming the sole survivor of his 7-man spearhead group. Watch Video » Dick Arnold remembers the sights and smells of clearing out Buchenwald murder camp in Germany after thousands of prisoners had died there. Watch Video » Harold Barber recalls seeing a tank daringly and cleverly rescue wounded soldiers from a valley on the island of Peleliu. Watch Video » Harold Barber finds the overabundance of salt water in Guadacanal both a blessing and a hassle. Watch Video » George Culpepper sits in the water of the Surigao Strait and watches as two Japanese naval task forces pass him by in the night. Watch Video » George Culpepper remembers picking up three Phillipine civilians who had been floating on the open sea in a small raft. Watch Video » Ben Griffith recalls meeting a celebrity at a popular hotel in China. Watch Video » Ben Griffith entertains a high ranking general in the Chinese resistance during a trip from Taiwan to mainland China. Watch Video » Ken Clark runs into hostile Japanese officers and cultural differences in post-war Tokyo. Watch Video » Moran Helms describes his reaction to hearing about the first atomic bomb being dropped at Hiroshima during World War II. Watch Video » 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 » Bernard Bentfeld and his unit have to cross the bridge at Remagen but get caught out in the open during German attacks. Watch Video » Ralph Turner, and the other mechanics in his squad, receive their first P38s, much to their delight. (Interview contributed by Dale Niesen) Watch Video » Herbert Hepworth remembers when his ship, the U.S.S. Vincennes, was sunk by Japanese forces at Guadalcanal in August of 1942. Watch Video » Herbert Hepworth describes being a gunner on the U.S.S. Santa Fe during the "Marianas Turkey Shoot", when over 300 Japanese aircraft were shot down off the coast of Saipan in June of 1944. Watch Video » Herbert Hepworth talks about the marathon run of the U.S.S. Santa Fe during World War II and sinking a Japanese carrier in the Philippines. Watch Video » Neill "Jack" Cox discovers the irony of war when a German 88 round sends him running for cover. Watch Video » Ray Stein reveals the machinations that led to the Manhattan Project and his undercover assignment for the Army at the Oak Ridge facility. (LONG CLIP) Watch Video » H. Read Vaughn and his crew operate out of China during their early campaign and have to endure a 45 day boat ride to their next station when a superior officer pulls rank. Watch Video » Clayton Byrd explains a comical incident on the Brittany Peninsula Watch Video » Seymour Lavine takes a patrol out into the jungles of New Guinea, but isn't prepared for what he and his men would face. Watch Video » Mather Hyatt recalls how he traveled through Europe during his off days after the end of the war. Watch Video » Mather Hyatt tells of his commanding officer during the early days of the occupation of Berlin. Watch Video » Mather Hyatt loses a fellow soldier at a Russian Checkpoint during the early days of the occupation of Berlin. Watch Video » Henk Duinhoven remembers how the war seemed to sneak up on the Dutch people, and their cautious reaction. Watch Video » When the Dutch people go on strike against the treatment of the Jews, the occupying Germans set out to prove a point. Watch Video » Henk Duinhoven's brother refuses to defer to a German soldier on the train and shocks his fellow travelers. Watch Video » Henk Duinhoven tells the story of how his brother found a way to leave Holland without running afoul of the German invaders. Watch Video » Henk Duinhoven and two of his friends have a frightening encounter with a German Paratrooper. Watch Video » Henk Duinhoven recalls the confusion that set in as Operation Market Garden began and the Germans and their collaborators scrambled to defend their occupied territory. Watch Video » Henk Duinhoven tells the story of the first few weeks of Operation Market Garden through a child's eyes. Watch Video » Henk Duinhoven, his family, and the Dutch people in general suffer with a lack of food and resources as the German's fight back against the Allied Forces as Operation Market Garden carried on. Watch Video » Arthur Crowe explains the awarding of points and how he had just enough points to go home as his unit broke up following VE Day. Watch Video » Arthur Crowe remembers how a fellow soldier had a new deadly run in with a shallow river while laying cable for the company's communications. Watch Video » Ed Morrison recalls the interesting, strange, and often grueling train ride across the Australian continent to Perth. Watch Video » Ed Morrison recalls the USS Chub using their conventional, non-torpedo, weapons to sink large supply ships. Watch Video » Ed Morrison tells the story of a Navy man who uses his R&R to fight with the Marines, only to alienate himself from the crew of the USS Chub. Watch Video » Reed Williams remembers an incident in the drop zone of Operation Market Garden, not long after the landings, involving a large quantity of rations and a downed General. Watch Video » Tom Parsons tells the story of how he created his own good luck charm: a bullet with a name on it. Watch Video » On July 4, 1944, while stationed in England, Tom Parsons gets a front row seat for an improvised Army Air Corp fireworks display. Watch Video » Frank Pomroy recalls how a fellow Marine is seriously injured by friendly fire. Watch Video » NEW - H.T. Maclin remembers how the crew of the USS Anzio learned of the atomic attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the immediate aftermath. Watch Video » NEW - Lt. Col. Hap Chandler (ret.) talks about losing fellow airmen while in the air and the feelings that come with it. Watch Video » NEW - Lew Jenkins remembers a series of little events over the course of a night spent bunkering down in a WWI redoubt near the French/German border. Watch Video » Carl Beck has his first encounter with prisoners in Northern Europe Watch Video » Lewis Fern shares his experience during the landing at Anzio Watch Video » Raymond Smith tells of the fate of a German prisoner in Italy Watch Video » Paul Compton tells of capturing Italians while they were still eating breakfast Watch Video » Paul Compton describes the heroic death of his unit's first casualty during a strafing attack by Messershmitts in North Africa Watch Video » Marion Holmes remembers the desperate actions of a starving village in France Watch Video » Dale Barker recalls the gruesome nature of war on Okinawa Watch Video » Bob Adams finds a mysterious dead German in Italy Watch Video » Ralph Hempel remembers a replacement in Italy Watch Video » Mack Abbott shares his impressions of the attack on Pearl Harbor Watch Video » Mack Abbot recalls the fighting on Tinian in the Pacific Watch Video » Hap Chandler retells a story of tragedy on Okinawa as told to him by his friend, Captain Jim "Hoss" Williams who was in the 77th Infantry Division. Watch Video » Fred King breaks a soldier’s rule and gets a humorous surprise. Watch Video » Andy Kiddey tells the story of being a passenger on a hospital plane dreadfully close to running out of fuel over Japan. Watch Video » Joe Peoples tells the story of an unexpected visit from his Vietnamese barber. Watch Video » John Souther recalls how he came into political office in Italy. Watch Video » The pressure and anticipation break good men, including Dave Williams, during the Battle of the Bulge. Watch Video » Don Ogden watches as the Hitler Youth act without consequences, leaving death in their wake. Watch Video » Don Ogden is taken to a camp for rescued POWs and awaits the long trip home. Watch Video » Don Ogden watches a saboteur get his just desserts on an American airfield. Watch Video » Hughes Davault talks about the dangers of flying home after World War II was over, after the aircraft mechanics had already left. (Interview contributed by Russell Gray) Watch Video » Ray Stein shares his experience of working on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Watch Video » John Davis describes the design of the USS Perch, a recon and rescue submarine. Watch Video » Earl Williams takes shrapnel in the arm and hip during a bombing raid on the air field at Mariveles, Bataan. Watch Video » Ralph Stinson describes passing a concentration camp as his unit made its way across Europe with Gen. Patton. Watch Video » Henk Duinhoven remembers the treatment of Jewish people as the occupation of Holland progressed. Watch Video » Arthur Crowe recalls two memorable events on his transport ship in the waters off the French coast.
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