Real and true experiences of the men who fought and survived WW II combat at its worst. Included are cherished photographs of the veterans during the war then and now.

Includes index.

We plummeted like a rock out of the sky / Charles Harper -- They died in my arms and I couldn't help them / Matias Rodriguez -- It's a little hard to go to sleep at night / Robert Louis Lanier -- Didn't they know they weren't supposed to shoot at me? / James McKernon Jones -- For Christ's sake, they're killing people all over the place / Harry Haines -- What the hell are they applauding for? We're going to war! / Bill Dallas -- They're not gonna get me, it's gonna be somebody else / Manuel Palmer -- Three years of degradation and human bullshit / Charles Clinton Green -- Ninety percent of what I know I learned aboard submarines / Rufus Roark -- I woke up to see a rifle muzzle pointed in my face / Ira Simpson -- I went to many places I never would have gone / John T. Ferguson -- It was not love at first sight / Robert and Virginia Gibeson -- Shells from the Japanese fleet splashed around us / Ron Vaughn -- It seemed like a million years, even though it was only two / Joe Leeah -- The Japs made them dig their own graves / Thornton Hamby -- Things don't change overnight / LuQuincy Bowers -- One-man show : pilot, navigator, bombardier / Rip Collins -- We never shirked a duty / Lloyd Groce. We plummeted like a rock out of the sky / Charles Harper -- It's a little hard to go to sleep at night / Atias Rodriguez -- Didn't they know they weren't supposed to shoot at me? / James McKernon Jones -- For Christ's sake, they're killing people all over the place / Harry Haines -- What the hell are they applauding for? / Bill Dallas -- They're not gonna get me, it's gonna be somebody else / Manuel Palmer -- Three years of degradation and human bullshit / Charles Clinton Green -- Ninety percent of what I know I learned aboard submarines / Rufus Roark -- I woke up to see a rifle muzzle pointed in my face / Ira Simpson -- I went to many places I never would have gone / John T. Ferguson -- It was not love at first sight / Robert and Virginia Gibeson -- Shells from the Japanese fleet splashed around us / Ron Vaughn -- It seemed like a million years, even though it was only two / Joe Leeah -- The Japs made them dig their own graves / Thornton Hamby -- One-man show : pilot, navigator, bombardier / Rip Collins -- We never shirked a duty / Lloyd Groce.