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Vis Kimenis

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Vis Kimenis talks about his convoy being ambushed by Viet Cong troops, despite extensive security measures, while traveling from Long Binh to Phuoc Vinh in November 1967. (3:16)

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Vis Kimenis recalls two separate rocket attacks while deployed to Vietnam and describes the "Kentucky Courage" that soldiers learned to develop during these attacks. (2:57)

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As food was getting scarce after the 1968 Tet Offensive, supply officer Vis Kimenis describes how he "wheeled and dealed" a few useless trinkets into 2700 pounds of "good stuff" to feed his troops. (2:06)

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While serving as a logistics officer in Vietnam, Vis Kimenis recalls performing a "combat assault landing" while delivering supplies in the middle of a firefight. (3:02)

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Vis Kimenis describes one of the more difficult aspects of his duties as a supply and service officer in Vietnam- to identify perished soldiers and to evacuate their remains. (1:49)

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Vis Kimenis recollects the similarities he faced between his tours of duty in Vietnam and his experiences as a Latvian refugee during World War II. (1:58)

Wade Knowles

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Wade Knowles' father was in World War One and he and all three of his brothers served in World War Two. He was still a little taken aback when he was drafted, but he marched right through basic training, even throwing a guy twice his size into The Pit. He had a little attitude because he was going into the Air Corps and then he was forced into the infantry. (4:35)

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Wade Knowles shipped over to England and then, almost immediately, he was landing in Normandy, shortly after D-Day. They marked an enemy position with smoke but it drifted and the American plane struck his position. It was close, and later on further inland, they were strafed by another American plane. (2:56)

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Wade Knowles was moving down a street in Saint-Lo when he saw a little girl, only five or six years old, crying for her mother. He swooped up the child and and carried her up the street one way, then down the other until, finally, a woman emerged from a cellar and ran right into him. (1:50)

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They were warned. Do not pick the apples. When Wade Knowles moved inland from the Normandy beachhead, he ignored the fruit which could be tied to a wire that triggered a booby trap. There was no warning that could have saved the Lieutenant from what waited a little further past the orchard. (2:30)