“We had this big Platoon Sargant come in and tell us about the thousands of North Koreans that were just ahead of us. I had read stories about the North Koreans coming in with knives and cutting the tents and coming in and getting you. They put us in a tent and I didn’t sleep a wink. I was scared.”
“We run into about six NVA soldiers. We shot two of them. The others took off and we followed. We get into some thick elephant grass and then it got really quiet. I knew them son of a bitches were in there. They were, and they were waiting on us. It was like the fourth of July. The rest of the company finally got to our location. I don’t remember too much other than I was in a lot of pain,”
“I was trained as a Marine to kill. I learned to do that very well. In Baker Company anti-aircraft that I was in, NOT ONE plane ever bombed the Yontan Airfield except one.” WW2 Okinawa, Japan
“At that moment the left track hit a tank mine. Of course, that took me out. It knocked me 15 or 20 feet. I was unconscious. The only thing I remember was there was a corpsman around me trying to wake me up. He said, “you are hit, and you are hit bad.” I said, “where at? I was numb.”
“The shot went thru my helmet and my sweat band into my skull. It kind of knocked me out for about ten seconds. My head felt like a big bell ringing. I did finally get the correspondent medevac’d out and I felt a large knot on the back of my head. The corpsman said we got to get you out of here, there is a piece of metal in your skull. They called another medivac and got me out of there. I went into Da Nang Hospital for several weeks and they finally got that metal fragment out from my skull.”