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Al Brown

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Moving toward Rome, Al Brown knew his brother's unit was nearby, and for an awful moment, he thought he had found him mortally wounded on the battle field. He never found his brother but a mortar round nearly found him. (7:40)

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Al Brown slept right through D-Day. He was nowhere near Normandy, he was in Rome and exhausted from the campaign. Hearing the news of the invasion in the north, he wondered how they could have gotten so far inland in one day. (2:54)

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As Al Brown's unit moved North from Italy into the Rhone Valley, the Germans fought very skillful delaying actions. Digging in near Belmont, France, he noticed an officer and a radio operator casually sitting in the open. Before long, they were all running. (8:22)

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When the war ended, Al Brown experienced high and low emotions. Happy for victory and sad for fallen comrades, and even for the Germans. The turmoil followed him on the trip home in the form of a raging hurricane. (5:13)

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As the Victory Ship entered New York Harbor, the fog cleared just in time for Al Brown to see the Statue of Liberty. It was a good feeling to be home. (3:45)

Al Carter

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Al Carter was sixteen before he moved from the farm to town and got to know electricity and and running water. Then he entered the Army and got to know the 4.2 inch mortar. (2:59)

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Before Al Carter could reach the front lines in Korea, he had to go through a hurricane at sea which made everyone sick. Then he had to ride underpowered Korean trains, which would often not make it up a hill, roll back and have to build up more steam for another try. (5:11)

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Like many soldiers, Al Carter had no idea where he was or what unit he was going to be in when he got to the Korean front. He considered it lucky when he was assigned to a mortar platoon. Stoically turning down a Purple Heart turned out to be not so lucky. (6:42)

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It was cold in Korea but Al Carter says that a body gets used to it and that he was prepared from the tough basic training. His unit moved a lot on the front, but he never saw Korean towns or cities, only the lonely front, where all the civilians had been evacuated. During this time, a Korean friend he met after the war was fleeing the North. (5:48)

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For six months, Al Carter had served in a mortar platoon in combat all along the front in Korea. Then the cease fire came and for longer than that, the unit did everything they had been doing except fire their weapons. (3:10)