Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
2:21 | Eason Bond recalls his first combat experience when his company met with German resistance near a small French town in 1944.
Eason Bond recalls his first combat experience when his company met with German resistance near a small French town in 1944.
While making his way through Southern France in 1944, Eason Bond remembers a few close calls from both enemy and friendly fire.
Eason Bond describes taking cover from German artillery fire in an unfortunate location after witnessing a fellow soldier's gruesome injury.
Eason Bond tells the story of how his battalion, later nicknamed the "Lost Battalion", was led into a trap and surrounded by German troops for several days in October of 1944.
Eason Bond describes what it is like to dig and lie in a foxhole during combat.
