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Frank Connolly

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After being stationed in Hawaii, Frank Connolly recalls shipping out to Okinawa just in time for his minesweeper ship to come face to face with a typhoon. (2:58)

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Frank Connolly recalls one memorable crash aboard the USS Essex while supporting airstrikes in the Pacific. (2:24)

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After the war's end, Frank Connolly remembers going overboard while his ship was on a de-mining mission in the Sea of Japan. (2:59)

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Aboard the USS Essex near the Marianas, Frank Connolly describes a very close call with a Japanese bomb. (1:37)

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Shortly after the attack at Pearl Harbor, Frank Connolly remembers the series of bombardment missions his ship took part in, including the Aleutian Islands off the Alaskan coast. (5:43)

Frank Cox

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Frank Cox is a Marine who was inspired by that great American recruiter, John Wayne. There was no ROTC at his small college, so he signed up for a platoon leaders class. If you made it through two intense summer sessions, you had the chance to be a Marine officer after graduation. (5:43)

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In the officer's basic school at Quantico, every Marine officer is trained to command a rifle platoon, so that, no matter the officer's specialty, there is an ability to fight and win in combat. Frank Cox tells the story of his friend, Barney Barnum, who upon arriving in Vietnam, was immediately thrust into leadership and received the Medal of Honor for his response. (2:36)

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New Marine officer Frank Cox was assigned to an artillery battery and was soon in Okinawa training for Vietnam. He and his buddies were dismissive of the enemy there when they saw television coverage. The cocky new Marines weren't very kind to the Naval officers, either, on the voyage to the war. (5:34)

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New Marine officer Frank Cox and his friend Jack Swallows admired the beauty of the mountains and landscape of Vietnam as they approached it on the troop ship. They didn't know where they were going, but soon they knew what knowledge they were lacking, and that was how to avoid booby traps, how to avoid friendly crossfires and how to relate to people who weren't really on your side. (5:48)

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The restrictions on artillery fire in Vietnam were so strict that by the time permission to fire was obtained, the combat conditions had changed. Artillery liaison officer Frank Cox tells how he beat the system once he became a forward observer by using prepared coordinates and then firing his pistol in the air as he requested the fire mission over the radio. (4:44)