Preserving The Oral HistorIES of Combat Veterans
3:55 | Serving as a combat engineer during World War II, Ken Jordan describes two close calls with shrapnel during the crossing of the Rhine River and during a German artillery attack.
Serving as a combat engineer during World War II, Ken Jordan describes two close calls with shrapnel during the crossing of the Rhine River and during a German artillery attack.
Ken Jordan recalls getting pulled into a surprise celebration while on a reconnaissance mission in Brunswick, Germany, in 1945.
Ken Jordan remembers uncovering German booby-traps in Aachen, Germany, in 1945.
While serving at a prisoner of war camp, Ken Jordan recalls the horror of finding a mass grave nearby which had been used by German soldiers to dispose of the bodies of Allied soldiers and local citizens.
