Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
After a short stint stateside, Roland Marbaugh is ordered to the Third Marines, but when he shows up, they’re nowhere to be found.
With his training complete, Marbaugh heads down to Panama with the J. Fred and Banana Fleet.
After training, Marbaugh heads to Sea School and then to the J. Fred Talbott for duty.
Roland Marbaugh’s experience as a marine begins at Parris Island for training.
After a long imprisonment, Jim Wall is finally able to return home and retire from the Air Force.
The war finally ends but the POWs are still in camps, being treated to aid packages and medics whenever it is possible.
Wall is interrogated in his first POW camp, meets another American, a training friend, and is finally moved to a legitimate POW camp.
Jim Wall continues to fly missions over India and then eventually China, where he is shot down and captured.
Wall’s combat experience begins overseas during WWII in the Pacific.
Jim Wall’s time in the Air Force begins with intense training, teaching him all that he needs to know to fly his fighters overseas.
As Tesch continues his time in the Army, his assignments shift from Germany to the South Pacific.
Emmitt Tesch’s story continues with his first reenlistment and followed 3 years later by his second reenlistment.
Part Two of Emmitt Tesch’s memoir which recounts the stories from the landing at Cherbourg to a non-combative injury.
The beginning of Emmitt Tesch’s memoir highlighting all of the events that occurred from training to D-Day.
This short summary highlights Lt. William King’s career, during which he was the courier of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb core to Tinian.
