U.S. Army Air Corps Veteran Joseph C. Beyer recalls his experience of dropping paratroopers in the town of Carentan in the Cherbourg Peninsula on D-Day. A few weeks later, the Americans had cleared the air fields so that Beyer and others could land in France and bring-in supplies and haul … Continue reading
Richard Dorff signed up to enlist in the U.S. Navy at 18 years old, becoming a first-class seaman that helped to guide a landing craft onto the beaches of Normandy during D-Day.
Sergeant Mike Fitch of the U.S. Army’s 29th Infantry Division remembers storming the most dangerous zone of Omaha Beach on D-Day. He describes the chaos of getting into his landing craft and how he was “scared to death.” Fitch explains how he looked for potential areas for cover as he … Continue reading
Bill Millin, the personal piper to Lord Lovat, a prominent British Commando in World War II, was ordered by Lovat to play the bagpipes as his fellow soldiers died around him on Sword Beach and all the way to the seize of Pegasus Bridge during the Normandy Landings. Millin asked … Continue reading
Sergio Moirano was part of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division during World War II, and participated in the Allied landing of Utah Beach. Moirano describes his thoughts during the journey across the English Channel and the turbid events that followed after he got off his landing craft–including the decisions he … Continue reading
World War II veterans discuss D-Day and their experience in the Normandy Invasion. Taken from the documentary Voices of the Veterans, this clip shows several U.S. veterans from a town in Virginia who were in the first wave to land on Omaha Beach.
A World War II veteran explains his time serving as well as what happened when he was captured as a prisoner of war. He narrowly escaped death several times and was treated even more unusually cruel in the war camps because he was Jewish.
A World War II veteran who served in France from 1944 until the conclusion of the war recalls his experiences. He discusses the hard times he went through such as sleeping in the freezing cold and not being able to shower for weeks.
A World War II Veteran recalls a battle in which he and his peers came face to face with German soldiers at a time when they couldn’t get their guns to shoot.
A World War II veteran gives an account of various war stories including one in which his friend and peer gets caught in some trouble with a Japanese Marine as he courageously rushes to his friend’s aid.
