Army

  • Abrams, Willis

    Willis went to jump school and was in great shape.  “If the Sergeant said drop and give him 10.  I gave one to the Sergeant, one for his mother, his baby brother and even him.” Willis was starting to become a hardened soldier in the United States Army Special Forces. 

  • Carranza, Jesse

    Being assigned to the 82nd Airborne is all based on the needs of the Army.  They have Special Forces Units, Rangers, 173rd and another unit in Alaska and the 18th Airborne Corp (where the 82nd falls under).  Wherever the Army needed you, that is where you were assigned.  For Jesse it was the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. 

  • Hutchins, Mack

    “We had B-26s on our base and I remember when we were going to breakfast in the mornings the B-17s and 24’s were flying out.  They were heading to bombing missions in Germany.  They were all in formation and man they looked good.  Hundreds of them.” 

  • Wright, Pat

    “Pat was assigned to the advance parties setting up where you could use radio antennas. When there was a communications set up in the field her unit would dispatch to set up communications and coms for the active Army units coming in. I had the best soldiers to work with,”

  • Taylor, Loyd A.

    “All we could see was knees walking toward our direction. We opened fire. They got into the mine fields and they paused their march. In a short while they came in behind us. Twelve out of my 18 boys were wounded. Some of them were seriously wounded and died. They captured us all. I could have ran and gotten out of there, but I had twelve wounded and the rest were just kids.”

    LOYD A. TAYLOR CAPTURED AS A POW: (16th February 1944)