account of the really important mission in this campaign i mean the enlisted soldiers sailors and airmen the fight to every obstacle to victory of course to tell the whole story would take years but the welded together by fighting for one great calls and one great team team in which you were an indispensable and working member that's spirit of free people working fighting i remember coming over the worst thing about the trip was you don't know where you were gone whatever it was should be a stranger and nobody likes that that ship was loaded from stem to stern was said sex around a third day out things got like the f funny thing on the way over your felt like you were the whole works you couldn't help it but then all of the u k you'd see things that made you begin to realize you were just part of a big proposition all kinds of things i was a pre med student at johns hopkins and something in life now i do know a little something about anatomy and i say it is scientifically impossible for the body to stand up to the training we see and absolutely possible muscles and tendons and bone structure was not designed to withstand that battering don't ask me how it happens that we did stand up to it i don't know it has no scientific explanation and many out of facilities which are normally denied to those engaged in the majority of civilian occupations the majority of occupations in civil life become anonymous to say the least but in the  i used to wonder whether the millions of people doing their various jobs realize they were part of it all paving the way for the invasion finally there was only one hole railway bridge left over the same between paris  they gave us a final briefing them we knew what to do and how they told us where and when it's a briefing i listen to every word voted on it like a left morning i'd have to face it to try to imagine how much fear i would have you know that would keep me from doing my job as far as everybody else was wondering the same thing nobody said anything official but all of a sudden the ship got much busier and over the amplifier the temperence at u b c past eighteen thirty hours funny i don't think i ever believed even after the final briefing that stuff just kept pouring in tanks trucks full ammo guys millions of things i can remember every case where every hand especially the first ambulance brought him in late one afternoon i came over to where he was lying and he looked up and grand i asked him how he felt he said the doctor came over and looked at his wound and swore he had no business to be alive we put him on the operating table and that we could die to keep swearing all the time he was operating we couldn't stop the bleeding i remember the radio news that night they said the casualties have been surprising you night there's a lot of places i rather talk about them one thing that's where i got hit we've been gone great up to it some of the guys that have been saying i'm a nice and when i first german artillery chorus pretty accurate to  i was sitting in front of the intelligence office doing a bit of somebody ready to swear he hated hitler all the time kids that knew how machine gun work and nothing else grinning like they were still on top and hardly hold that trigger finger still middle aged guys want to tell you about the wife and kids and they were through killing when i saw him through getting killed too some of them thought they were lucky and others did and some didn't him down to the rear where it was somebody who's job to find out what made him tick but it wasn't my job to figure them out i just kept them covered rather i never gave them more than the geneva convention and that was all already on region was off the map again this was a period of acute crisis for me i give the highest priority to a fresh order maps of the parasite refused to be like the situation the final ball came when it became evident that we were going to bypass i remember one day we were coming across a big fat field didn't look like nothing special and so the guy says to me guess what so i says what so he says you're in germany it's a sign over there says my god but i thought well i won't be long now i want to quit  just came straight on into it towards the end we knew the situation was bad we knew we were handy and you know it was possible we wouldn't get more than anything i remember the way everyone behaved and you knew was the toughest fighters became gentle and kind and considerate to each other i knew a lot more about men out of the  driving all day all night saying in summer to keep away songs like milk man keep those bottles quiet my job was to see to it that they had in the tooth brush caught maybe a book to read when they came over from the east bank to the west bank of the most for a little rice we brought them over one company in a time because that was all a regiment could spare from the line or any one time somebody had tapped him on the shoulder and said all right boy you go on back across the river for twenty four hours rest and here they were where they could rest they just couldn't believe it when they were up for just twenty four hours without war everything was down to essential counted out like dollar bills storytellers were under one night's sleep one day's hot meals one clean change of underwear one clean pair of pants one shave one hot shower one movie based i wonder what was the best it was a good chance for him or a ride home a hot shower right along like a girl on the screen whatever it was all of it was over by mori they were gone back with we've been up north where things were a bit static so we were quite glad to be moved down to the top side of the spot and then down through belgium we noticed how scant some of the civilians of that trust we held in reserve for a week and then isn't a selection on account of we couldn't get near coronation shore misunderstand when you've gotten used to it all the way since d day and then on december twenty fourth like a christmas present that son come up to after a while we was given him the only one till again we could see the cologne cathedral a long time before we got there that tower was our objective was on the rhine river we went fast and by the time we got into town there wasn't to much fight left in cologne was mangled all right but there were still a few building standing and i was sorry i thought of those front cities flattened anyway we got our objective now we had to cross that river america there it was sitting there big and black i'm no architect but to me that remark in bridge was the most beautiful bridge in the world in the army when things go as planned that's wonderful but when they go better than planned then you think of the chaplains w the government sent a few of us congressmen over to see those camps and if there's anybody left to wonder that this war was worth fighting well i wish they could have been along there it was right in front of us fascism and to bond to lead to wherever it crops that i talked to some of the prisoners the ones that had the strength to talk their offenses with the usual nutty crimes you know wrong religion  race long into a union are the wrong political party in germany it led to all were four hundred camps like the ones i saw it was the worst thing i ever saw in my life and i wouldn't a missed it for i'm against a move in a hurry that's where transport comes in we've been flying in the stuff along with the british transport command since d day towards the end they seem to be moving faster on the ground and we were in the air we waited for the east and west to me i spent four years in the infantry and i saw my share during that time i only met three men that like to fight and they were a little cracked but had to be done now that it's over i feel good except for one thing all this talk about world war three these big pessimists the talk so easy about another war just didn't see this one or not but we watched them bring in some high up prisoners i dreaded to be friends however