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Bob Schmutzler

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Bob Schmutzler gives a brief history lesson on how the Japanese became entrenched in so many of the islands in the Pacific. (:43)

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While stationed on Bougainville, Bob Schmutzler tells the real story behind how his friend and fellow soldier became a "victim of Japanese gunfire." (1:14)

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Bob Schmutzler remembers his feeling of invincibility as a young man fighting in World War II. (1:07)

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Bob Schmutzler talks about why he joined the Army and describes in detail his experiences leading up to and including the attack on Pearl Harbor. (8:55)

Bob Seeley

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It was a new experimental branch of the Army, infantry in gliders. Bob Seeley loved to fly and had a private pilot license, so it was an exciting assignment for him. He reveals how he survived all the crashes and how he wound up at jump school without going to Fort Benning. (5:14)

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Once in England, Bob Seeley's glider unit began training in British gliders, with tragic results for the first aloft. At the Battle of the Bulge, his 30 caliber machine gun was overmatched by the German tanks, but he found a way to disable them. His unit suffered tremendous losses, including all the officers in the first day. (7:30)

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One man from the unit would get a thirty day furlough with travel back to the United States. The honor fell to Bob Seeley, who was one of the few in his unit to survive the Battle of the Bulge. He reveals why he moved back when General Eisenhower was greeting soldiers in Le Havre and why his accommodations on the crossing back to England were first rate. (4:21)

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The Germans were down in a valley and the Americans were up at the top of the hill. From the German perspective, the Americans were setting a trap. On the hill, Bob Seeley didn't want to huddle down in a foxhole and freeze so he kept walking back and forth, trying to keep warm. (1:50)

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He went home on a 30 day furlough and never went back to Europe. Bob Seeley's leave was extended, his back problem tied him up for five months, and he was shuffled around to different bases until he wound up in Maine. Rather than face the cold, he resorted to drastic measures, reenlistment. (5:35)

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He could not believe how much tax was withheld from his first paycheck, so Bob Seeley went back into the Army. He began driving generals around once it was discovered he could manage the prickly personalities. He so impressed a visiting Air Force general, he was invited into a B-17 cockpit and transferred to the Air Force to serve on the general's staff. (7:56)