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Lew Jenkins
WWII
| 101st Field Artillery Regiment
Lew Jenkins recalls an artillery barrage that he launched from an infantry call for support, and how close the barrage came to killing Allied troops. (2:39)
Lew Jenkins remembers a series of little events over the course of a night spent hunkering down in a WWI redoubt near the French/German border. (3:22)
Lew Jenkins recalls getting into a direct firefight with a German 88 and a sniper. (2:54)
At the end of the war in Europe, Lew Jenkins gets attached to an Allied effort to re-settle the displaced persons who fled to Austria during the course of the war. (5:13)
Lew Jenkins goes over the type of work he usually did supporting infantry movements in the French and German wilderness. (7:52)
Lewis "Lew" Dabney
WWII
| 36th Fighter Group, 53rd Squadron, 9th Air Force
Lew Dabney recalls his first couple of missions flying a P-47 over Europe in 1944. (2:15)
Lew Dabney goes into detail about how he would approach bomb targets in his P-47 aircraft, attempting to avoid artillery fire. (3:08)
A P-47 pilot, Lew Dabney discusses a celebratory act that some pilots would perform after a successful mission. (:59)
Lew Dabney talks about some of the events surrounding the Battle of the Bulge, describes the weather conditions and tells the story of a friend of his whose aircraft became "tragically full of German lead" during one mission in the area. (4:19)
Lew Dabney describes the dive-bombing mission over Germany in 1944 for which he earned a Distinguished Flying Cross. (2:56)
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