Peterson served in the Infantry in the Philippines and New Guinea. He drove a Jeep and achieved the rank of Corporal. He recounts a close call with a grenade and another close call with Japanese mortar shells. He discusses how the mail was sometimes…
Oatman's Army training included 12-mile hikes. When he arrived in Washington state, he was assigned as clerk to headquarters company because he could type and his spent his entire service stateside.
Edwards was a Navy aviation electrician and served in the South Pacific. The dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan spared him from having to take part in active combat. He replaced generators on seaplanes and worked on machine gun turrets.
After he finished basic training in the Navy, Brashears attended torpedo school. He repaired seaplanes in the Mediterranean Sea near Africa. Before that, while being transported by sea, their ship picked up enemy survivors.
Oatman's Army service took him to Okinawa, where he joined the Army track team and participated in the 1948 Olympics in Tokyo. He served as a clerk and a quartermaster laundry. There were times of boredom, but he was happy to have a radio to…
Galbraith served in the Navy in the South Pacific at the very end of WWII as a storekeeper aboard ship. He sustained a bad non-combat head wound while performing his job and suffered headaches most of his adult life as a result. They were six days…
Otto served as a private in the Air Force and recounts less than ideal conditions living in tents while undergoing training in Florida. When sent to England, he worked with ordnance, loading bombs onto airplanes. He smuggled home a photo of a B-17…
Kischer joined the Navy in 1938 and was trained as a machinist's mate and was trained in refrigeration and worked in the engine room on a destroyer. He traveled to the Hawaiian islands and the Gilbert islands, and tells how his ship was hit by a…
Adams served as an engineer in the Army. After training in Texas, they went to England to learn bridge building and explosives. He entered France 30 days after D-Day, and they experienced gunfire.
Radke served as an electrician in the Navy and spent some of his time in New Guinea. Later, he served in the Phillipines and recounts the beautiful birds and thick jungle there. His stint in the Navy concluded around Christmas 1945.