You guys ever listen to interviews with World War II vets?
 

I can't find this interview anymore but it was an interview with a sailor in the Pacific World War II

It was a small battle where we had 12 ships and the Japanese sank, or completely fucked up our ships.

The sailor says we saw them at 13000 yd then he looks at the camera with big bug eyes and he goes that's point blank range!

The japs shot a couple of shells into our bridge and that fucked us up but we got our number 7 gun going to put a shell amidships. The ship burst into flames and we could hear them all screaming.

When we went by the ship was going under and it was sizzling and they were crying.


Glad I missed that

We had a gardener when I was a kid who was an vet of the Western Desert Campaign and the Battle of El Alamein, he was in a tank and he'd tell hideous stories. Sadly it wasn't those stories that stuck in my brain but his yellow shaking cigarette stained fingers as he spoke.

I like this interview with a Vietnam vet.

My great-grandfather had told mesome his memories about WW2 but only I remember for now is his small room and stong cigarete smell all around... I wish I`d remembered some of his stories...

Wow, that's very interesting, thanks for sharing!

Any chance I get to spend time with a WWII vet I jump at the chance.

Years ago when I lived in Phoenix we bought some furniture from a little time shop a few blocks from our house. This old man - he must have been in his 80s - wanted to load up our truck with the funiture himself. I noticed he had a Marine Corps tattoo and asked him about it. He told us he was sixteen years old when he lied about his age and joined the Marines. He made it through boot camp but before he was shipping out they figured it out and sent him home. He was back two years later and ended up going to Japan. After Japan surrendered he got out, only to re-enlist to go to Korea. I ended up taking him to lunch that day and we became good friends.

My dad was in England for the last year. But to the north. He never told stories but I heard men mention some of the kids that were going home. Torn to pieces in more ways than one.

Yeah, nasty business... I used to work with a guy that was in the army Corp of engineers, he told me they used the dead Japanese for land fill, building roads after the battle.

Another great one: