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Curtis Mackey

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Curtis Mackey recalls an incident where he encountered heavy air burst artillery in an open field on his way to the rear for church services. Luckily, there was a foxhole nearby. (2:40)

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Curtis Mackey discusses the rigorous training prior to war in Camp Blanding, Florida, then the large scale war games known as Tennessee Maneuvers, and finally dangerous training exercises in Europe just prior to D-Day. (2:52)

Dale Barker

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Dale Barker tells of Japanese trickery on Guam (:32)

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Dale Barker recalls the gruesome nature of war on Okinawa. (:23)

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Dale Barker tells of what he witnessed while clearing caves of Japanese on Okinawa (:43)

Dale Beatty

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He joined the same National Guard unit that his father had joined. Dale Beatty wasn't ready to leave his North Carolina home, but the guard offered a taste of military life, even deployments during weather emergencies. (4:05)

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National Guardsman Dale Beatty was at work when he saw the 9/11 attacks unfold on TV. He knew immediately that he would be going to war soon. That was confirmed when he was sent to California for desert training. After further training at Fort Bragg, his unit readied to deploy. (6:20)

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His National Guard unit was activated, trained and deployed, and Dale Beatty was on his way to Iraq. Nothing had prepared him for what he experienced when the ramp dropped on the plane and the heat and the smell of the desert engulfed him. As he moved from Kuwait into Iraq, he looked over the civilians around him in his convoy. Are these the guys who are going to shoot at me? (5:28)

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As Dale Beatty's truck convoy moved through the southern Iraqi desert, he encountered crowds of children begging for food and water. The soldiers were instructed not to throw them anything, but when a father sees children in need, the rules sometimes get overlooked. As he moved into populated areas, the begging turned to selling. (2:03)

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It was an old Iraqi Air Force base in northern Iraq that the Americans settled into and began to fortify and improve. Dale Beatty noted the grass and trees near the base and they gave him the idea that maybe they were far enough north to avoid the heat of the desert. He was wrong. The base kept taking fire from the surrounding area, so patrols were started to find and eliminate the threat. (7:08)