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Wade Knowles

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He was crossing a river at night moving into Germany and the fire from the bluffs above was heavy. Wade Knowles was making his way in this firefight when a bullet went right through his back pack. That bullet was close but it was the weather that got him in the form of frozen toes. Better memories: the German farmers who shared their fire, a chance meeting with a friend from home, and the sight of General George Patton doing his thing. (4:49)

Waldo Myers

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Waldo Myers recalls the terrible destruction he witnessed while surveying Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bombs. Provided by Bob Stevens, the Veterans' Forum. (2:22)

Wallace Shipp

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Wallace Shipp, a hospital corpsman, recalls taking part in the invasion of Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands in early 1944. (2:47)

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Wallace Shipp remembers how a kamikaze attack near the Lingayan Gulf left dozens of sailors heavily burned. (2:37)

Walt Lineberger

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The draft was lurking, so business school student Walt Lineberger got himself tested and qualified for Naval OCS. After being commissioned, he had a tour on the USS Northhampton but was cherry picked for another assignment. He was sent to the Mobile Riverine Force in Vietnam. (6:28)

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With his sea bag over his shoulder, Walt Lineberger came to the Mobile Riverine Force and was sent out right away. He didn't even have time to find his bunk. The Mekong and the Bassac rivers were huge rivers, like the Mississippi, and the delta they formed was his area of operations. (3:06)

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The first time he got shot at, Walt Lineberger was leading a formation of Riverine boats, one of which had a huge bladder full of napalm. As they neared a Vietnamese fishing structure, he had a hunch and went around it on the left. (9:05)

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There was one sailor in Walt Lineberger's Riverine outfit who refused to go out anymore as he got close to rotation. When it was discovered why, his commanders found him another job for his last few weeks. (2:48)

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With his Riverine boats, Walt Lineberger escorted some Army howitzers on pontoons up river. Then he had to listen to the deafening sound as they immediately began pounding the enemy. This went on for three days and led to an embarrassing incident for the young officer. (5:04)

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When the men were on an operation, morale was fine. It was when they were on down time in the rear that the problems started. Walt Lineberger had to deal with that and it was no fun but neither were the VC out there on the river banks. There was an operation to catch a large formation of the enemy in a pincer movement using infantry and Riverine boats and it was during this that he saw a recoilless rifle round coming right for his head. Part 1 of 3. (7:27)