Click on the links below to listen to audio clips from each of the veterans:












Joe Garelick

Listen to Joe Garelick explain his flight uniforms and describe a bombing mission. Clip 1 Clip 2



















Jerry Sinykin

Listen to Jerry Sinykin describe a mission near enemy lines and talk about what he saw at a concentration camp.
Clip 1 Clip 2














Harold Zats

Harold Zats tells about the duties of his flight crew as well as some of the discrimination he felt as a Jewish GI.
Clip

Listen to Irving Silverlieb's account of the Japanese capture of Wake Island in 1941. Clip




















Harold Arenson

Cigarettes were a valuable commodity in postwar Europe. Listen to Harold Arenson describe their importance. Clip















Leonard Parker


Leonard Parker details how they dealt with enemy shelling, house to house combat as well as his experience in liberating Dachau. Clip 1 Clip 2 Clip 3






















Harold Spector


Harold Spector recalls a mission he drove with a jeep full of explosives near the Siegfried line. Clip

















Joe Brochin


Joe Brochin's experience during a beach landing in the South Pacific.  Clip















Bernard Weitzman


Listen to Bernard Weitzman describe a crash landing of his airplane and subsequent rescue in the South Pacific. Clip

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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