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Bill Corry

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Mr. Corry describes the duties of a Navy Patrol plane and shares details of assignments he participated in over the Aleutians. (3:34)

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Mr. Corry discusses his return to Bremerton after the war with Japan had ended. (3:14)

Bill Couch

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Bill Couch, who becomes a POW, discusses various escape attempt discussions by fellow airmen from the German prison camp. (4:35)

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Bill Couch and his B-17 crew lead a bombing run over a German Messerschmitt airplane factory, provide a big payback to the Germans. (1:17)

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Bill Couch discusses leaving his German prison camp in Poland, to march for days in the winter of early 1945. (5:27)

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As a POW in a German prison camp, Bill's fellow airman entertains German officers by playing the piano. (2:16)

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A German Messerschmitt airplane attacks Bill's B-17 head on, taking out two engines. When it loses one more engine on their return flight home, Bill and his crew are forced to make a big decision. (9:20)

Bill Crossley

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Bill Crossley was more mature than most soldiers arriving in Vietnam, having already been an artillery officer for seven years. In charge of three batteries, he interacted with many other troops and never saw any evidence of the widespread notion that they were lacking in some way. The popular image of the indifferent Vietnam soldier is a total myth, he says. (2:25)

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It was all peace and quiet during the Tet armistice, but Bill Crossley's artillery battery was getting a request for fire from a remote unit. They didn't know it but that was the first rumbling of the Tet Offensive. The wave of attacks across Vietnam actually relieved some frustration on the part of American forces. They had been searching in vain for enemy to engage. (8:55)

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Once the Tet Offensive began, it was the "Wild, Wild West" for Bill Crossley's artillery. He had to move an entire battery forty miles in the dark, secure an unguarded bridge in Saigon, and then begin the counter attack. While it was a disaster to Walter Cronkite, the troops who had long been searching for the VC knew that they finally had them. (12:11)