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Arthur Sutton

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Tasked with delivering supplies into Burma, Arthur Sutton talks about how the often terrible weather made no difference in their flight plans and how he learned to trust his instruments over his own body. (4:25)

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Arthur Sutton describes why his Air Transport Command aircraft were not allowed to fly in formation or even near each other while flying over China. (1:05)

Arthur Wong

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Mr. Wong discusses traveling heavily over one mile on foot in under an hour's time with his amphibious command. (3:49)

Artie Curtis

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Artie Curtis discusses how kamikaze aircraft would approach their Navy fleet, and one particularly close call. (1:27)

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Artie Curtis remembers watching a fellow ship capsize and sink after passing through a violent typhoon in the Pacific. (1:11)

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Artie Curtis describes the armament on his ship, the USS St. Paul, and the role it played in the Pacific during World War II. (4:11)

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Shortly after the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Artie Curtis describes becoming part of the occupation force and witnessing the aftermath of the destruction. (3:29)

Ash Rothlein

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He was a truck driver behind the lines, but Ash Rothlein and the others in his unit experienced the joy of liberating a French town. On a street filled with boistrous residents, he felt it was a great moment of unity for mankind. (3:24)

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His work was behind the front but Ash Rothlein did make a couple of mistakes and drive into potential danger. "There were no signs saying, this is the front." After making close friends with a Belgian host family, he drove on into Germany as far as Mannheim before the surrender. (4:04)

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Serving in occupied Germany, Ash Rothlein was overwhelmed by the human devastation. When he finally sailed past the Statue of Liberty to his homecoming, it was a simple thing that made many of the troops cry, ladies dishing up apple pie. (2:18)