One sniper bullet i would be shaking in fear, i guess i finally got another tank, and we had to get another crew because of the four tanks crewmen. Three were killed five of us survive survived we had to get another tank crew, and it was about two weeks. Massive count ererattack. We all got out of that one safely. Not safely, i got burned and hit on the arm with a piece of shrapn shrapnel. Another question from the audience . Another question. Thank you all for attending, thank you especially to our veteran veterans. American history tv in prime time continues in a moment. Coming up, the wives and children of soldiers discuss their memories of world war ii including pearl harbor, dday and president roosevelts death thats followed on the invasion of sicily and the Italian Campaign to the liberation of europe. Cspans latest book, sundays at eight. A collection of stories from some of the most influential people over the last 25 years i decided to take it, because whether its an illusion
Avoid as much as humanly possible the casualties of which you just heard. These are heroic tales. I make observations frequently and try to put them into the context of which the gentleman just spoke. He was within the french legion of honor. That is the highest decoration that france can bestowe. And im honored to be sitting next to this gentleman. [ applause ] the abstract observation thinks this is a generous and deserved gift of the french government that our liaison was not all that smooth. Now, one of the things we were informed of, is that when the invasion was to come about, that we would use intelligence, a prearranged signal for the french underground, so that they could be inserted into the invasion effort. And i still remember the slogan that we used. It was a line from a poem of rambo. [ speaking Foreign Language ] which has nothing to do with warfare at all. Now, also about french german, french american relations. There was, you know, general de gall had organized some o
Coming in on us. I was shot through the arm. There were seven of us that reached the beach, four of us were wounded out of 30. Now, when i went off the boat, i went on to the water and for a little bit, and then i came up, by then there were guys exploding. Our boat was not the only boat there. Not all the men on my boat were medics. That would have been a big mistake to get all the medics on that one boat. I went under the water, i had a bullet through my arm. I knew i had to get the guys out of the water before i could treat them for doing it. I decided to pull the guys out of the water. One guy was hung up on barbed wire. I was cutting him off. The straps were all tangled into the barbed wire, i got him strapped, cut and just about trying to pull him out of there, i had my arm kind of around him, he got hit with a bullet and it killed him right in my hand. So i continued on working. I let go of him, theres so many there, i didnt know if they were dead or just floating. So i let go o
On a foggy morning in October, 2012, somewhere between 100 and 200 townspeople gathered in Lincolnville Center. Actual numbers vary, but there were a lot of us. We were there for a purpose. The old Center schoolhouse, which had finished its original.