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Andy Staruch

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He was among the last of his unit lined up to board the SS Leopoldville for the Channel crossing when the officer manning the gangplank stopped Andy Staruch and all the men behind him. The ship was full and that proved to be most fortunate for them. (8:38)

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He had deployed very late in the war, but Andy Staruch did get to fire the mortar he was trained to use. The action kept German troops on the French Riviera from moving North to help in the Battle of the Bulge. (2:55)

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His last duty in Europe was guarding a truck repair operation in Austria. Andy Staruch was responsible for going to Czechoslovakia with a pile of invasion scrip to bring back a load of safety glass. Finally released, he headed home to rejoin a successful business he had been in before the war. (6:10)

Andy Tsimpides

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Mr. Tsimpides describes the challenges of landing in New Britain and fighting Japanese forces leading up to his career ending injury. (4:35)

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Mr. Tsimpides describes being brutally wounded in combat, mistakenly declared dead, and the results that followed. (3:15)

Angelo DeLuca

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Angelo DeLuca describes his first combat experience after landing at Normandy a few days after D-Day in 1944. (1:49)

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During the Battle of the Bulge, Angelo DeLuca remembers taking cover from what turned out to be friendly artillery fire. (1:39)

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Angelo DeLuca tells the story of how one of his friends was killed while their unit fought to take a German fort, and trying to contact his friend's family after the war. (3:22)

Anthony Consolo

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Mr. Consolo discusses working on Incinerator Detail while aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown and witnessing a bomb come through the side of the ship. (3:42)

Arch de Castrique

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Arch de Castrique recalls his experiences with banzai charges on the Pacific islands (1:22)