In the interview titled Remembering D-Day: Interview with US World War 2 veteran Mr. Sergio Moirano told his courageous story of fighting in in World War 2. Mr. Sergio Moirano was the one who spoke in the interview and said that he had fought in England and Iraq during his service. Sergio had a very rough time in England, he was terribly sick on the ride, and on the first few days of being in England. After his illness had gone Sergio started battle in England. Iraq was his next stop, he had been in England much longer than Iraq due to the fact that he was shot in the arm while on duty in Iraq. Serving in Iraq and england was very dificult, Sergio said that he crawled almost the whole time in both England and Iraq. “you could hear the bullets
A young F. Carl Mahoney was off to Witchita Falls County in Texas. He enlisted in the Vietnam War. To then become a medical corpsman in the US Air Force. After 3 months of basic training in northwestnorthwest Texas (a barren desert, ) this man receivedreceived orders to report for medic duty in England. In Suffolk, England there was no combat, only lots of suffering and families in need.
In the article, “Soldiers Battlefield Accounts” several soldiers speak about what they experienced during the battles that they fought in world war two. Under the heading a replacements story, a soldier, Donald Carl Chumley speaks about his experience. He enlisted at the age 19 with no military experience and they shipped him off to his first battle in Luxembourg with only 17 weeks of basic training. Two hours into the war, Donald's Private, Colonel, was shot in his arm. The other soldiers called it the “million-dollar shot” since he was sent home right after going to the hospital. The weather during the Battle of the bulge was bitter and cold, and it didn’t help the soldiers with their experience. Now a veteran, Donald saw many replacements
Men were living outside for days or weeks on end, with limited shelter from cold, wind, rain and snow in the winter or from the heat and sun in summer. Artillery destroyed the familiar landscape, reducing trees and buildings to desolate rubble and churning up endless mud in some areas. The incredible noise of artillery and machine gun fire, both enemy and friendly, was often incessant. Yet soldiers spent a great deal of time waiting around, and in some quiet sectors there was little real fighting and a kind of informal truce could develop between the two sides. Even in more active parts of the front, battle was rarely continuous and boredom was common among troops, with little of the heroism and excitement many had imagined before the war. The Italian infantry officer Emilio Lussu wrote that life in the trenches was ‘grim and monotonous’ and that ‘if there were no attacks, there was no war, only hard work’.[1] The order to attack – or news of an enemy assault – changed
A long time ago in 1942 when the nations of the world have once again for the second time engaged in a world war. Men were once again sent to war and had to leave their families to fight a war for whatever country or nation they came from. Some men were paratroopers that were flown in by plane. However, some men did not always have safe travels to their destinations and were often separated from their squad if they even managed to fall safely to the ground and survive the barrage of gunfire from the enemies below. There were some American paratroopers that ran into these problems when they were dropped into D-day. One of them was named John Jackson. John Jackson was on one of the first planes heading to the beaches where one of the greatest
Not every man who 's fought in a war planned on doing so. In fact, not all of them even want to. It 's rare to find enough people voluntarily willing to lay down their lives for their country, so more often than not militaries used what we would call “citizen soldiers.” Citizen soldiers are exactly what they sound like, regular citizens taken from society and turned into people capable of serving in the military. Although it may seem obvious when plainly written out, citizen soldiers had vastly different experiences compared to career soldiers, and Stephen Ambrose attempted to pin down that specific experience in his book Citizen Soldier. Ambrose uses oral interviews from World War II veterans and other materials to explain the experiences of the common American soldier who served in WWII between D-Day and the eventual surrender of the German forces. However, when examining his book, it 's important to ask how successful Ambrose was in painting an accurate picture of this kind of soldier 's life during his service. Is the information he uses specific to the men who served in Europe, or can it also be linked back to the soldiers in the Pacific? This paper will evaluate his work by comparing it to oral interviews from WWII veterans both from the same areas that Ambrose 's veterans serve in and in locations not included in his work.
The war also blurred the lines between fact and fiction for the soldiers. One such example can be seen in the actions of the men. While they woke up every day terrified of meeting their demise, they carried themselves with dignity and acted as if nothing bothered them, not because they were truly fearless, but rather
So that was what life on the Home Front was like and these are some of the soldier’s experience. Soldiers lived in a very hard situation, they were just helping their country but it was very dangerous to be a soldiers, must of the people did it because soldiers got well pay and they needed the money, also people that lived in the Home Front didn’t feel well, they were in a very unfair position because they didn’t have the fault and they paid the consequence. Imagine how hard was it to be in constant danger and not knowing, that you could die
Blind to the truth of what really happens. It’s times like this where I am forever grateful for the experience I have already been faced with gruesome events. Yet that hateful feeling of dread continues to tower over me each and every day. It’s challenging to recall what it was like for me the first I set foot on the battle field, as it seems like a lifetime ago. I suppose that I have lived a lifetime in these trenches. I wish that with every enemy I shoot it shall not say with me. A constant reminder of our sacrifices, I’m on edge as it feels like a continuous want for death. Bewildered as to when it will strike again shaken by the fact that it could be me carried away, or left in the barbarous
My grandfather, Julian Hall, was a young boy during World War II. He was born in October 1937, and lived in nearby Nedrow, New York. In 1937, Nedrow was much smaller than it is now, being a typical small town in the North East where everybody knew everybody. Some of his first memories are about the war, which dominated life from the time the U.S. joined in 1941 until the war ended in 1945. Being a young child, he had many different views of the war than adults, since he didn’t fully understand everything that was happening around him.
A veteran is someone who has fought in the military at one point in their life (alive). A veteran is someone who has bravely defended America no matter what the cost. Without our veterans, well, I’m sure no one could imagine where we’d be without our veterans.
As Jay and I were making our rounds with our new bolt action rifles, several explosions shook the ground and sent dirt and mud flying everywhere. Jay grabbed my arm and kept me low in the trench as heavy fire came from all directions. I tried to get up to help shoot off the Germans, but Jay would not let go of
The invasion of D-Day is the largest joint sea born invasion in the history of the world. Although very well planned, the amphibious landings were a gamble made by the Allied forces to gain foothold in Europe. Every American has heard about the Allied invasion of German-occupied Western Europe on D-Day. However, how many Americans stop and think about how much planning, preparation and luck that went into making it the success that it is remembered for? I will attempt to depict what it took to conquer the Normandy beaches using historical and military facts that make it such an iconic event in the world’s history still today.
Tank despised the stench, whether it was the reek of the dead, the unwashed bodies of allied soldiers, or the ever drifting faint scent of gunpowder. Then there was the ground. The landscape was naturally beautiful before the war. However, the digging of trenches, the explosive detonations, the hidden landmines, and the piles of bodies made you learn real quick to watch your step.
World War One, known by many as the “Great War”, lives in infamy as one of the harshest, brutal wars in history. While the high amount of casualties decimated populations, another huge factor was the toll the war had on the youth that served. The madness that was known as trench warfare was the stuff of nightmares, from the horrid living conditions, to the unpredictability of the opposing onslaught of artillery, soldiers were surrounded by death. This trauma and constant stress ruined countless lives, old and young. If the bullets did not get you, the stress would. The question was when, not how. In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, author Erich Maria Remarque told the story of a young man named Paul Bäumer, and how he and
The WW1 affected the soldiers physically through severe injuries and often left them traumatized with ‘shell shock’ by the things that they had seen like. The trauma resulted from the soldiers’ experience of the