Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
5:36 | Bill Cruickshank explains why his ski unit was created and describes the training process they went through preparing for mountain warfare in World War II.
Bill Cruickshank tells the story of how he first met Rupert von Trapp, the eldest of the Trapp Family Singers, from whom he coincidentally later received medical care after being wounded in battle.
Bill Cruickshank explains why his ski unit was created and describes the training process they went through preparing for mountain warfare in World War II.
Bill Cruickshank remembers his first combat experience capturing German troops on the Riva Ridge in Northern Italy, February of 1945, and how he came face to face with one of his German prisoners fifty years later.
