Oral History Interview: Joseph Hamburg of Urbana

                                    
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I have is Joseph hamburgers November 14th 2007 or 308 

X Factor band Illinois my name is Brent Cochran and videographer 

where is Henry Ratcliff 

Robert what’s your date of birth May 25th 

25th 1914 1914 n. U joint 

join the army where you drafted are you doing with that I was drafted in Grand Rapids how do u 

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how do you feel about being drafted 

I didn’t even checked I wasn’t one of these 

skunk judges on judging other thing like that I was ready 

the goal of the only thing that bothered me was that my wife was 5 

was 5 months pregnant and I wouldn’t have love 

to have been present at his birth which I was in labor 

able to and I ask for a deferment of 70 miles 

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and I was denied so I accepted 

suppose that night when the army in May of 

43 how’s your wife Angela how did you feel about you 

she wasn’t very happy but she accepted to the shed new the third 

million seller men Aladdin 

under the same circumstances as I was the 

when into the service and she shakes after lifting 

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make the best of it weird to live in the time that you were drafted 

I live in Champaign Illinois did you have the opportunity 

opportunity choose which service your going into work today just tell you you’re going alright I didn’t 

I didn’t have that I didn’t volunteer for this particular service solo 

I had to go where ever they decided it was at third 

discretion and I 

I didn’t really know when I was after 

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after my induction into the army at Camp Grant 

we were put on a train 

the destination of love which we didn’t know 

Nolan we didn’t know we travel to travel all day 

through the night until the following morning hand 

and we were in Texas and we were greeted 

greeted at the station 

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buy some officers and I immediately saw the insignia 

neon their colors and when I saw the cross rifles I knew I was in the 

was in the infantry how do you feel about that well 

I was a little surprised what the accepted as the 

you know after all the infantry is the queen of battles Luna Bella 

it’s the pits allowed to be a part of the infantry 

because I did a lot of very important work at any rate 

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the ascent to camp Wolters 

welders Texas just a short distance from Fort Worth 

worth it was the largest 

infantry replacement training center IRTC 

in the country I didn’t know that at the time 

timer to find out later is divided into different battalions 

and I knew it wasn’t 

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wasn’t going to be easy acceptable in the 

get a figure is given. The series of 

casts and 

how to say yeah what qualifications you had then they wanted to know what 

no what your IQ was and they wanted to know 

 

some of the other qualifications you might have that you weren’t even aware of 

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and it so happens that the one of the two 

the test was listening to a series of sounds 

followed by a series of other sounds 

you were supposed to designate 

the second son was the same or if it was different 

I have no idea what that was for what I meant but I was told 

so later on that I scored very high on that and 

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and I was being mp3 trained as a rifleman 

my 4 month I love my special day with me radio operator because they 

they really said are you a ham radio operator because you did so well on the test 

I said no and I was pleased because I thought that was 

that would be kinda nice and it turned out to be nice 

so long with my basic training as a rifleman 

prolong with all the other mp3 rifleman in also 

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what’s trained as a radio operator learning the Morse code 

code so forth and they have a special way of teaching you know they say 

there’s no right way and the army way I’m sure you heard 

you heard that expression but I want to tell you 

the army method of teaching I thought was excellent for example I’ve never 

I never fired a weapon of my life and when we were 

giving a rifles for the first time and 

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what train how to use them were trained about the nomenclature 

how to disassemble a tends to assemble at Anza 

is that let method of teaching is so good that the 

I think that any person live with a little white pill with AV node 

trouble learning how to handle a rifle and 

we got soul 

efficient with that that we took great pride and see if we could 

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disassemble and reassemble it in the dark and we would do that 

what do that are on our thoughts at night turn the lights off take the rifle 

rifle apartment by touch tell what each friend we had to learn the moment 

Fletcher we could tell by the touch what he was 

was not was to be assembled into your weapon and 

and it was miraculous to me and when I came 

came time to go to the firing range I never shot a weapon before my life 

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first time I made marksman Manhattan 

subway weeks later we went to the range for second time in eye 

made sharp shooter and I was pretty proud of that fortunately I never 

I never have fire my weapon during my combat experience in a very happy about 

happy about that how old were you Thunder you infect your house 

I was 29 how did that affect your basic training experience Nevada how did I 

how did it how did that affect your basic drinks .3 treated the same way this new guy 

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the same and I was in the train 

cleaning company with mostly 

young latin I would say 18 19 

20 and the training was pretty Ricky 

reckless records and I never fell out of a hike and 

and so it goes hikes marching with food with pretty tough going uphill 

particularly and never had 

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never had any trouble of going through the 

infiltration course so far 

what you had to protect your weapon 

weapon and crawl on the Hudson 

the sand can get very hot in Texas in the summertime 

what time and crawl under barbed wire live machine gun 

gun was firing over head and you have to keep your body pretty flat to the ground 

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the ground so you were really close and I went through that never that it was 

landing ship trailer exercise 

I remember one incident 

when do we had to go up a hill which was 

which was pretty steep in full field pack 

helmet rifle and all of the sudden 

somebody yells out gas in a mediately 

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you have to take your gas mask out and put it on it and continue 

climbing that remembers least 8 pill 

well when we got to the top of that to everyone was exhausted 

just exhaustion fever give me a few moments to rest with 

which we did it when I got it was a landing ship trailer left 

after that we went through that that wasn’t so bad was climbing up a rope 

upper rope ladder from love a little boat onto a mock ship 

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ship when I got back to the barracks is lunch time 

hi I didn’t eat lunch that day I just have something very very lonely 

red light but the iron the respect of all these young 

youngsters pool a lot of me were a 

college graduates for the Sleep Center in the ASTP that was a 

program for students and we had that here at the University of Illinois 

and the days start to call me 

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old man but they respected me I never once 

fell out of any force marcher or any disease 

exercises that we had to perform in the basic training for a number 

reminders pretty pretty difficult 

who wrote the song proud of that and 

I think that takes care of that ass back 

but not when you left Texas did you go to England when you left Texas where did you go 

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tango I’ll I was lucky green light 

greenlight training FB after the 

d 13 week training cycle lanyard 

when you’re at the mercy of the army you don’t know what’s going to happen to you 

the just so happens that on the very last day of her 

basic training it was a Saturday 

saturday in UCWeb with that with a buddy of mine we would go into town have dinner 

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go to a movie and so forth I suddenly felt 

sick I just I wasn’t well I wasn’t myself 

and I’m never telling my friend 

as we are walking to the bus we were going right by the 

dispensary is that s where you going off I said hello 

Harold you know what I really feel pretty tough I think I’m going to see 

things that can help me I went in and the nurse 

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damia 

cursory examination for the thermometer in my mouth 

hello sir what temperature is she said that 

soldier I want to go back to your barracks get your toilet articles for so forth 

Forest Hill going to the hospital I said what she said 

so that they don’t tell you what’s wrong with you so I 

I was in the hospital I found out African to give me a private room with us 

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a steamer so I guess right away I had pneumonia 

why was in the hospital for about 3 weeks 

at that time is it in have the technology or the 

drugs to not pneumonia does very quickly 

NT Wright while I was on my husband 

Hospital bump in the ward are first sergeant in the platoon 

2 liter of town with my first sergeant in all is the follow up 

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fallout stripes in the middle of diamond in the middle 

came to see me and I was kind of surprised 

surprised they sent him but we need your signature here you are on orders to go to Fort 

Fort Benning Georgia for advanced infantry training and you have to be deleted 

deleted because your sick I was very happy 

free happy about that because I know of other 

Giada’s after basic training you love me if they were sent the Benning 

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finding the next thing was overseas and I was during the app 

the African Kente another friend of mine I have been experiencing 

Branson d1.5 think he was killed on the one of the beaches band 

battle of Cassino or something like that solo 

as a result of that I had I 

my training cycle was over and the third 

there there everyone listen chef Tupperware number of me and we 

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we didn’t have too much to do when we would play ball 

paintball war Hardkiss Doolittle 

marching drill just for the fun of it so forth 

and the one day of the 

force actress in Hamburg I would you like to go to Henry school 

I said what does having problems he gave me an idea 

I said I think that being good I did he said I do to you said you 

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get yourself together in one is different part of the Campa Blast 3 

3 weeks you have training to become 

NCO of the noncommissioned officer 

so I really enjoyed that it was a tie 

at the time of year when early 

early autumn and the weather was good and the one eye 

when I was through and after the 3 weeks it came back in the short leg 

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shortly after that I was promoted to Pfc 

that’s a big thing in a while you’re just a lowly private and 

you get the PFC stripe you take a level rising but it everyone 

and the sergeant 

Hamburg I want to be sure to have those stripes sewn on 

underwear and I don’t want you to put them away European absinthe 

Casino and you be proud of that which I did and 

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and the still continued 

duh duh I was the same as a result of that I was assigned to the country 

which I was happy about this 

but then the iPod radio code train to use radio code 

and after short time 

what time the first action call me in the order you ruins it 

Hamburg just been promoted to corporal 

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why was proud of that I had my stripes sewn on and 

define I was there for almost a whole year 

ss member vocabulary teaching so far 

and the then I received orders 

borders that I was being shipped to 

CVS close to port of embarkation I knew that was 

in preparation of going overseas 

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Mya 

in the meantime I left upper very important part of my life 

while we were on a field problem 

problem during my basic training the Wii 

what way out in the wilderness someplace nurse look a lot of areas were the wilderness 

in Texas and we were bivouacked 

because it was there training 

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training program of different several days 

we get STAAR shelter halves in Hannibal which resulted in the pup tent 

Compton to mentor a pop dance one night 

I had to fall asleep in Elizabeth around close to midnight I see her 

I see headlights turning right into the opening of the pub 

the pup tent and her voice is Hamburg 

yes sir yes sir front center I came up and said 

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I know my wife 

wife was just about ready for delivery so he said hamburger 

proud father of a bouncing baby boy I said wonderful 

who said we’re going to love you to go in the camp get your uniform 

Farm Animal cake you in the Jeep that you can make telephone call which I did 

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did but that time it was 2 o’clock in the morning I called my mother in law 

and she gave me all the particular solution 

I was extremely happy my wife with saw 

futsal write my mother lies and who does he look like 

she’s so he’s beautiful 50 most beautiful 

 

what kind of symmetry does four and a half months old 

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console I got my first furlough is born 

middle of September and I got my 40 in January 

Amanda it was wonderful to be home again even for short time 

and to become acquainted with my new son who just wanna have fun solo 

solo and then 

I was lucky if I got my orders to the border Port of Tampa 

complication I was lucky to get ahead 

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another word for Lowes the land road they give me time 

the time between the time you left camp to go to your destination nude 

head I got a 10 day leave for which I was very happy I got to spend 

spend that ur home with seven head already is he was 

the 6 month old in 

and the from that I was a series of 0.37 

federal camps in them over to England for March 

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mark rating and finally Dover to France 

that’s another story how did that feel when you found out 

finally going to France how do I flinch when you left England to head the fray 

how was that well when I left England to go to France that first 

the first time I knew that we were going to the battlefield 

I knew that right away. We were put on 

ships and then go we got off the ship we were on the Sun 

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the landing crafts and the one we got to 

sure you’re the ship science hello to go 

to go to close to the shore because of being grounded 

Verizon Center Cincinnati Atlantic craft texture to the shore 

but this this was 

Atlanta to Utah Beach 

July 14th 1944 

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and of course nobody was firing at us 

these b****** have been secured and the headlights 

Allied forces have been able to penetrate does the duck the halls 

whole front from east to west was approximately 50 miles 

and the area that stadia occupied was about 15 

10 to 20 miles deep so there really was a lot 

salata real estate did the Allied forces own 

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can you hear can you hear the comet going on in this interview how where 

I wear a fun but once in a while you could hear you little rumbles 

that we were we were right near a little 

little town named new CD is IG NY 

and I could never tell her 

how big that Tom was Norwegian allowed to go in town 

sound to visit with the natives and 

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hand up but I do know that we were bivouacked in the area just right outside of 

side of a double park the reminder be a lot of the Westside Park in Champaign 

and the Normandy is known for its dairy 

dairy products and other day there they were lot of dairy products 

and I’m alluding to the fact that you see me you really didn’t mean 

being very much too baby I didn’t know that we were about to 

15 miles from st. Louis Missouri capital city 

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is Normandy that was the reason that the progress 

address of the Allied troops was being ham Pertwee Lou Reed I couldn’t move 

booty just went 1520 miles and the ugly 

temporal setting with the control of the Romans and so forth 

couldn’t do it very easily 

how to cure did you feel when you were there did you 

you feel like you’re in a combat zone or did you feel like you’ll have everything this actually win the division 

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who was in the rear of the company that we were maybe 15 or 20 

20 miles away from the real action and we we went over it 

free replacements mp3 trained Eastwood 

foothills protective especially if he had one and we’re just waiting to be a science 

and we had no idea where we’re going and we had 

we have no duty to perform so we we would just let me play a little boy 

little ball on one of the very 

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wonderful things was the daily newspaper that the armed services 

Mrs president called the Stars and Stripes where you are in the service of Montreal 

with that well we got that paper we devoured earth 

cover to cover up because that police the progress of the war 

what is going on and 

we were just waiting to be a sign 

love that I landed there on July 14th but I 

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really wasn’t signed to a division of the first week of August 

so I was. Of a couple of weeks during that time 

what time were you feeling really ready to get in go wherever you happy that you’re well 

well I was preparing myself for an event adventure 

eventually I was just hoping that I would be with a 

whats a good outfit to wear to your buddies would be friendly and I was home 

I was hoping that I would be assigned as I knew it 

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new RB signed as a dream but as a radio operator and 

luckily I was signed to the 2nd Infantry Division 

9th Infantry Regiment 3rd 

battalion headquarters and I got to know the fellows 

they were all really not nice guys 

will take care of a hamburger pictures of Robeson all that and I felt the cure because 

because for such a long time I was attached and undersigned and now I 

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how I found a hole when I report it to the 

sup company commander 

who is the captain I reported my Sennheiser 

amber I see you’re a corporal you said our table of orders doesn’t call for 

4 nc all with your grave 

grade I said last time I had gotten to know 

the mode of fellas I said capital pussy 

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but I want to sleep here 

dentist what don’t worry about that then and I did get the SE as a 

radio operator handle 

and the sea will very happy in your new unit why do people fear comfortable nude 

your new unit yes I did and I knew the dangers that exist in the 

and all this experience of these other 

men in the office were pretty is low season for Less 

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the last time they had been in right from the very beginning and they would tell you things 

things that will help you along and it is so you the real 

Serena McKenna feel very comfortable 

when when did University move out move more towards the front 

the front line when did you first had toward the front lines that vary 

evening at the that I was assigned that is 

let evening another 

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fella in the communication sex and I think 

wireman that’s telephone and I was 

why was the radio operator they handed me enough CR 300 which was 

Furby have a radio that I had a sling over my back 

will I carry my weapon and he said 

Hamburg we have to go to the command post 

when was dark and he said I know 

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I know it is he said just walk along with me and the 

if any flowers are shut up by the Germans 

just stand still and be absolutely motor 

motionless because you have no idea how bright does flowers are 

and1 did go up shortly after we started out and I just lit up 

set up the whole countryside and we stop 

and finally if the 

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lost its a full power as it was coming down to 

the earth and we were able to proceed and we finally got 

Torah I was a little farm house in the world 

and when we entered the woods a black cloth hanging in the doorway 

doorway height is a light because then if you were exposed to much like 

select your target so loud 

I was so they had sort of a little love 

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excavation something like the solar and I went down there and put 

Dr phones on and I didn’t have to do it I just miss 

listen and I just heard a lot of huh alot of activity 

Debbie going on that was all the radio signals which I couldn’t understand 

understand because they were so fast so many I have no ID 

no idea but I was told that this the listener monitor so far 

and that was my first experience in combat 

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to go back to win the flare was shot how how did you feel hurt your standing there waiting for the light to go off 

I felt exposed to be surprised 

I’ll break that was I just felt expose anyway 

when I finally have subsided we are able to go forward 

I thought that are on the way to that from outside 

encountered my first dead GI which 

Lozada bad experience 

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f*** you learn to love yourself 

and the hectic septic Handa 

I am 

I want to mention one thing about the city Sydney the town 

just a little side light experience 

40 years later when I f*** my wife while we were on a 

a little trip to Europe alone on the sightseeing tour 

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f****** real Honda sightseeing bus we visit the invasion area 

and we were on the support lane beautiful highway and I was looking out the window 

at the window and all of a sudden I see a good size psilocin Musi 

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I said Merle take a look this is where I’ll end this is where you talk because I gotta feeling 

excited and we didn’t have time to go into 

toddler was just like to see what it was like 

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do you remember 

remember the first time you saw German soldier 

first German soldier I saw was a prisoner of war and the 

I was very happy about that the 

is there human beings and the whole earth number 1 

are one of the story of a wise guy says he was cursing a sin 

Union 11 cinemas 

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rhetoric about General Eisenhower 

is it that guys called in the salt kind of trouble speaking 

little English thats thick German accent 

after that I saw a lot of German prisoners and the light 

like the feeling you have when you see them marching 

I haven’t seen them as prisoners 

colors that change the way you look at them as combatants I didn’t hear 

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after after seen them up close is prisoners like that in Phoenix people how did that make 

that make you feel about them when it was in a conflict 

there he loses a hand in the 

they have feelings and then the other at the mercy of 

city of their governments of the leaders in the Air Force 

Air Force Air Force to do what they have to do that doesn’t mean 

listen mean the day were sympathetic to the Nazi cause for example 

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sample July I really didn’t have any ill feelings towards them 

and I remember when I was on the hospital ship going from Earth 

Normandy back to England 

they have prisoners of war who were wounded wear ride along side of 

find all of the GIS and they were given the same treatment 

why you think they were given this is a very same medical treatment and I want to tell you 

does the medical department of the army did a magnificent job 

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p****** hug 

Seth thats another story was with hairy situation that you 

you felt like I need a drink sleep being attacked by the enemy did you ever have a well 

we were in Normandy is 

end action actually for several days 

and then we were pull up put in reserve and 

that means you don’t see any action then during that time 

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the 

US seller in the Special Services Department of Motor Vehicle 

very very good about sending entertainers and write up at the front 

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steely and I remember all of the GI is we didn’t have church 

the tears we turned our helmets over and set on the door helmets 

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with our rifles salon stylist in The Godfather 

what that was great and that’s the only entertainer that you really got to see 

anyway after short time is 

in the Normandy we were 

told that we were going to another destination and we were 

we were put on transport trucks and 

it was the second Infantry Division the 29th Infantry Division 

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fishing who fought alongside the second part of the war 

and a battalion of Rangers 

we order order to go to the port city of breasts 

Brest France and to capture the 

capture the city which was being held by an elite paratroop division 

that duh but not use to be 

tubing defeated they were Kraft outfit 

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and the it was there 

it was the latter part of the heartless 

but I would get weak forever alone I think I finally got there early 

early of the following morning and we didn’t go in 

go into the attack mode until later on 

and the dream of horses 

occupy the city which they have the high ground 

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highground there actually we were looking down our throats will we attack we were at 

turbo disadvantage Betty Wright 

29th of August 

hi sticking a foxhole with 

with my buddy is everything in the Army is buddy system 

lambda fortunately with the hedgerows 

Rose mofford of a wonderful shelter 

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from enemy fire and they vary in size 

I remember we was a word 

Duggan behind head rozerem a be a 2 feet high 

sometimes there were 3 or 4 feet high this particular Head Road what some bars 

darkside ever seen it was about 10 feet high lol 5 feet 

fake sick so that was pretty good cover 

so my buddy and I were dating f*** soles and then 

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things the germas certain shell 

has a head at 8 millimeter cameras mounted on tagged 

text which was one of the best weapons 

in the German army and 

panda gets fired as shell 

but this long about this big around hello muscle 

the muzzle velocity of 3000 feet a second mountain m1 rifle 

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takes a 30 caliber bullet which is 

about this morning maybe about as big as a little 

little finger has a muzzle velocity of 20/952 

so you can imagine when I shut like that 

it is so fast when you hear the muzzle blast 

less than a second later 

the shell is there nude has exploded so what you hear 

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you hear is boom boom the second boom is the Explorer 

slow motion and play service Charlotte 

Ellis and fortune lady husband 

behind the hedgerow with a hit on the other side of the hedge row and suddenly 

my left arm went numb and I thought of 

photos from the ocean and the 

involuntarily I start to shake my arm hoping that it would 

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the feeling would come back and then my buddy who is sticking with a soda 

hamburger dip I looked online 

this is this is a you get ahold of hair in a hole here 

Handa is that was the extent of my guy didn’t know how 

House series was but I find out later after surgery that 

they had the the bullet or the shrapnel 

 

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injure the median nerve and my arm ascetic 

the cast from here to here hug with a diagram show 

show UA with which to see the doctor if any one this one to know one 

you know what’s wrong could see what a love and 

when when you found out when you realize you’re wounded 

do you feel scared or relief store 

I was terribly surprised 

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IAAI I can’t describe 

describe my emotions and I wasnt relieved 

I was worried what’s going to happen to me and right away 

right away at after the when the shelling stop the first sergeant always go 

always goes around the other side anybody hit anybody 

my body says yes I do hamburgers have Harry’s Hamburg go back 

go back the aid station and I started back 

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I didn’t know where the aid station was I had asked when will GI is on the way in 

give me some directions and finally I got there and the 

 

before that point and you had any friends wounded 

what does it all were any of your friends ever wounded before before you heard you 

did you experience no no no 

Twitter I fit in that section in the communication section that was here 

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what was hit now what happens software that I have I’ve no knowledge but I 

no longer with me being wounded with her 

 

leader who was this first to tell him he was struck in the left 

left and I remember sitting in the ambulance with her first was 

who was the Tennessee think I’ll be able to come back pussy up 

Seattle 5th after I get out of the hospital had no idea the extent of my injury 

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he said I was sure I never saw him after that or did I 

never get back to my office what was your experience in the house 

hospitals in the 8th station I have nothing but the highest respect 

for the cymatics the whole night 

old medical department of the army all away from the mess 

the mass unit that I went to hug her that was 

that was the summer before the mast movies so you had no idea 

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idea what it was like but after seeing the movie abyss very similar that every 

Kansas City everything intense I was put on a gurney Anna Hathaway 

the way all night enterable 

horrible pain before I was taken to surgery because they had somebody 

wounded men anda 

I remember this is the treatment 

treatment that we got the efficiency and the I 10 

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the tension and the speed 

weed with which they did things it was really heartwarming honest 

astounding 

I remember when I was finally 

taken into the operating room golf everything 

cancer I was in my soul in my uniform 

uniform with my boots on everything leggings 

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anda immediately the nurse 

nurse on one side sheet successors and cut my sleeves off 

hello weathered my alarm Saturday shave it 

Panda the doctor on the other side 

Bed Head the Sun the same thing with this Arlington Texas 

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he has a needle in his hand 

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and then he slapped my 

the inside of my arm just like this and these 

somebody said make a fist which I did I said what what 

what’s that little for is over this is only anesthetic 

Dennis Levitt have a cousin you gotta be kidding I told you think so 

tell them to tell remember 

remember as he stuck the Midland Ari Melber City LA 

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I didn’t even get to finish say the number one and I was out like 

sounds like a light that was sodium pentathol that that was 

can anesthetic of shorter duration of the after they put Dillards 

little sleep then they give you the heavier dosage 

picture of that up of anesthetic 

static so I like saying I know I will 

will couple was 90 in the morning 

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sunday shining birds were singing I was on us 

Kansas cop 

first thing I do is look to see if my mom was so bad it was in this cast 

Castle mansion what’s a diagram of what happened 

the Horde boy came along I don’t think it was morning 

70 R 18 years old nas one and one sister young kid was 

Deli in the Army and he was ugly 

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emetic you like a nurse taking care of patient 

aMDA what is all that I have to wake and he came over 

how you doing soldier I said okay I’m at home in some pain 

which I was for a long time and I said I’m hungry 

hungry owl footprint get some breakfast with you eventually dead 

aMDA he ran his hands over my 

my face which was I had a pretty good growth of Barrington 

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are you need a sunshade soldiers is a fake show up and he did he came 

came back later and shave man brought me breakfast 

Panda from there on in it was 

getting ready to Beshine 

Keisha back to the hospital in England 

huh la continue the little further 

whether you have any questions I could go on and on and on 

00:49:30

when you were in England what was the experience like that in the in the hospital did you have an account 

contact your family that timer I was able to write letters Etsy Laconte 

contact I have I was sent to a general Hospit 

Hospital which uses the elite that’s what they have their own 

all the facilities that you need nothing first class hospital and I was there 

I was there for about 3 months they perform the bus free more surgeries on my 

on my r1 and the hermits 

00:50:05

went through a period of the therapy physical 

physical therapy when they remove the cast my arm was about 

this big around but they said don’t worry about it on guitar 

get back to normal size and I have the highest respect for the 

medical department of the army they does a magnificent job 

Panda after earth 

after I stay in the hospital old is sodame several days 

00:50:40

days after I got to the hospital big second of officer 

who was a major in full uniform quemadura war 

Lorde calls out the names of four people of which mine was won 

does one of them and said gentleman happy to 

award you with your Purple Heart solo 

we all stand there and the Sun was a Mac 

cinecast and he handed me my Purple Heart which I took in the 

00:51:15

cooking this and then you start back 

I couldn’t return this solute 

but he understood anyway 

after that it was a series of rehabilitation centers and interviews 

who is supporting salon until live 

finally round up the 

with the replacement depo 

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Denver VA Belgium Hulu 

what about the time in the Battle of the Bulge took place New York process 

Russell C troops going to the front end 

I had a job in their classification 

sketch the section which I was happy about and we just pray 

just process troops going through 

Panda finally 

00:52:25

Anna Mae the eighth of a year the war ended 

analyst the process of going home 

new homes through the points system rewards points 

if you reach the certain level of points you got to go home and 

and the my last place of silence was in Rams 

Rams francaises champagne capital of the world at the little ribs 

red school house where the peace treaty was signed and that was widely 

00:53:00

Clayton experience for me were you there when the peace treaty was signed 

no no what’s a fair die after work I got there I think it was then that 

hello maybe 

maybe September hand 

I would never marry a bong from there and then when the 

the lovable. You needed the became a t4i 

4 I’m ever had a 4.0 and I was on my way home so 

00:53:35

I was relieved of duties iron sent to lab 

another headquarters in Findlay 

down to Marseille France in the shift up at home 

Handa 

separated from the Army at Camp Grant again in Illinois 

where I was Masood into the army and the 

got them home and to see my young son 

00:54:10

run again who was at that time to the half years old 

and that was the first time you that was not real happy really the first time I seen him and me 

year and a half and you remember what you did your first the few weeks home 

how you spell huh 

visiting with family and visitor with friends 

make preparations to 

things to leave the community we move move to Minneapolis 

00:54:45

swear my in laws were from in the hole service 

venturi week we came back have back to Champaign 

Spanaway Ben Hur ever since what was life like when I return back to normal for 

when did it return when life return to normal when you got back into it 

noir leather guess 

awful lot of servicemen the dead that I’ve come back 

and the littlest hook up their lives 

00:55:20

where they had left the moon just continued on those that were lucky enough 

enough to come back ir 

can answer your questions I forgot 

said I want you to read this particular thing 

thing that I prepared to give people 

some insight on this is already 

related to detail in the sea 

00:55:55

everything is it safe to let up to attend the 

the importance of a anyway this is what I wrote 

this is just a couple of minutes it is important first of all 

Baltimore to recall 

when to talk about all the preparations and planning that took place 

place prior to the actual version by the supreme commanders 

of this massive invasion army 

00:56:30

this fighting force was comprised of three United States divisions 

two British divisions in 1 Canadian division it was a green 

reeds at the United States General Dwight d. Eisenhower would be the supreme commander 

commander of the entire allied nation army consisting of 

listing of 1500000 soldiers 

5300 ships and boats evolved 

Devol description + 2500 landing craft 

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in the early morning of June 6th 1944 

4000 ships carried a hundred fifty thousand American 

American British Canadian and Polish troops 

across the English Channel to France in the air 11 

11000 fighter planes bombers and transports 45 

Titan support by the end of the day 15000 allied soul 

did soldiers would be dead or wounded this represented 

00:57:40

the largest amphibious landing in world history 

history and it was indeed the beginning of the Allied 

liberation of Europe the American forces 

cyst on the Normandy coast at Omaha Beach Utah Beach 

the name of that which I believe are from the year to all Americans 

and the British Army is assaulted 

gold sword and sword beaches in the Canadian 

00:58:15

Canadian forces landed on Juno Beach these were all codename 

old names of the different areas of invasion I would like 

I would like to point out that D Day took place 

63 years ago 

superior 

. Representing 

3 full 

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34 generations of people 

I am estimating that a good many of them or neither born 

where to young tree called assist Oregon vent 

and I know I must be difficult for them to grasp the mega 

magnitude of this military action in any rate 

great invasion proved to be successful and by the end of the day 

00:59:25

end of the day all five beaches were secured 

and by the evening the anime 

anime with Sun dragon back away from the Normandy coast 

and from that point in my related 

my involvement in the war 

thinking of you like the same 

about your crush any ain’t no reason 

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I can’t say I love her but the medics 

is the world really wonderful 

 

 

just happy to be here 

very much good job 

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if I’ll be on it 

Usher 

 

 

what will taking dude 

do other things with one side 

 

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