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John Bullard

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While on patrol in the Philippines, John Bullard and the men of his unit encounter what one soldier can only describe as "tree gators." (3:07)

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John Bullard recalls how his commanding officer was tasked with delivering the terms of the Japanese surrender to the US Congress. (0:41)

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John Bullard recalls the shock and disbelief that went through him and his men when news came out of the atomic attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (1:16)

John Carey

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Mr. Carey explains the importance of collecting enemy intelligence. (4:11)

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Mr. Carey shares the horrors he faced being a POW in Japan. (7:20)

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Mr. Carey discusses landing in Samoa for training and the insects he and his fellow soldiers faced that inflicted disease. (2:20)

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Mr. Carey describes the excitement he and his fellow shipmates experienced when they saw topless Samoan women while harboring at Pago Pago. (1:06)

John Craven

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When he got to Vietnam, John Craven's buddies were sent south to different units and he was sent north to the 101st Airborne. "I ain't jumping out of no airplane," was his response, but in Vietnam, airborne meant air mobile, deploying by helicopter. After a while, he got the urge to ask to be assigned as a radio operator. (5:24)

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John Craven describes the life of an infantry soldier in Vietnam, the food, the rain, the booby traps and the enemies they faced while in the field almost constantly. The villagers were glad to see the American soldiers, he says, but you always had to be on your guard because any one of them could be Viet Cong. (5:14)

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Many deaths in Vietnam were accidents, reports radio operator John Craven, who remembers one grisly incident involving a soldier walking into a helicopter blade. The young age of the troops had a lot to do with it, he says. His radio job started out well, but then he realized how much weight he would have to carry in the field. (4:23)