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Jack Womer

WWII | 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division

While searching captured Nazis in Bastogne, Womer discovers a pack full of stolen French money. As the war nears its end, the 506th takes Hitler's Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden, where Womer reminds German civilians that America is now the conqueror. (This interview made possible with the support of COL ROBERT W. RUST, USMCR (ret.) in honor of LtGen Lawrence Snowden & LtGen George Christmas.) (4:10)
Jack Wormer returns to Lewistown, PA, where he resumes his career in the steel industry. When a fallen GI's sister calls, Womer visits her family to explain to the father what his son died for. (This interview made possible with the support of COL ROBERT W. RUST, USMCR (ret.) in honor of LtGen Lawrence Snowden & LtGen George Christmas.) (3:38)
Jackson Jones

WWII | USS LST-504

Jackson Jones goes into detail about several memorable moments from his career in the Navy during World War II, as his landing ship carried supplies to Europe, Africa, and into the Pacific. This interview and video was provided by the family of Jackson Jones. (5:25)
Jacob Wilson

WWII | Section 22, General Headquarters, South West Pacific Area

He had some radio experience when he enlisted in the Navy, so Jake Wilson was selected for Radar school and went to a spacial boot camp for technicians. More math instead of more push ups. Then he qualified for a new special Radar countermeasures program. (This interview made possible with the support of MSG RONALD M. CAREY, U.S.A. (RET).) (4:41)
Jake Wilson was a specialist in Radar countermeasures assigned to the South West Pacific. A special unit named Section 22, made up of Americans and Australians from all the military branches, was formed to train Allied radar operators in how to recognize and resist any Japanese efforts to use this technology. (This interview made possible with the support of MSG RONALD M. CAREY, U.S.A. (RET).) (4:25)
Jake Wilson was part of a team that went into South West Pacific airfields as soon as they were established to train radar operators in radar countermeasures. Sometimes, this put him in danger from Japanese bombing and he recalls a couple of incidents here. (This interview made possible with the support of MSG RONALD M. CAREY, U.S.A. (RET).) (4:15)
Radar countermeasures technician Jake Wilson was stationed for a while at an airfield in the Philippines where there were many crashes. Maybe it was the volume of flights, but for some reason, it kept happening and he describes one of the worst here. This was after he lost his team leader in a crash away from the base. (This interview made possible with the support of MSG RONALD M. CAREY, U.S.A. (RET).) (3:38)
Radar jamming was a new technology and Jake Wilson was busy installing jamming equipment on B-24's engaged in bombing runs near the end of the war. He also made patrol flights over the South West Pacific, trying to locate and analyze Japanese radar operations. He finally qualified for a 30 day leave home and while he was there, the war ended. (This interview made possible with the support of MSG RONALD M. CAREY, U.S.A. (RET).) (2:54)
How were the Japanese locating us with their radar from 200 miles away, far past radar range? Radar countermeasures technician Jake Wilson tells how he figured that one out. He also tells why the popular idea that the Japanese were copiers of technology, not innovators, was an erroneous idea. (This interview made possible with the support of MSG RONALD M. CAREY, U.S.A. (RET).) (5:53)
The professors at the University of Sydney helped Radar countermeasures technician Jake Wilson build one of the first Radar jamming transmitters used in the Pacific. They tried different ways of obscuring the signal until they settled on noise modulation. (This interview made possible with the support of MSG RONALD M. CAREY, U.S.A. (RET).) (2:07)