We come in to the mouth
of the Mediterranean.
About 5 or 10 miles
out away from the land,
there's a big explosion.
I've never seen so many GIs
in the water in all your life.
And we went fast as we could,
and we picked up as many
as we could.
We headed for Oran, Algiers
in the Mediterranean.
We got rid of all
the Germans I guess,
and we headed back over through
Algiers over the mountains.
And we come down, and
we was in Tunisia.
When units of the 1st
Armored came ashore
at Oran in northern
Tunisia November 8th 1942,
to challenge the Nazis'
hold on North Africa.
The British were there first,
and they cleaned the enemy out
of Egypt and Libya.
And here, both
armies are fighting,
and the Germans
are in the middle.
Our objective was to
hold Kasserine Pass.
There were two passes.
Faid Pass and Kasserine Pass.
Well, they snuck around
Faid Pass and cut us down.
We got chewed up pretty bad.
We landed on Anzio Beach.
And from what I've learned,
we got within 15 miles of Rome
before the Germans found out.
And they shoved back
within 52 miles around
from any corner of where
the Anzio beach was.
Every major battle we
defeated the Germans.
And on up the boot, one of
the majors hollered at me
and he said, Jones!
He said, we want you
to get in that plane,
you're going back to Naples.
You're going home.
And then them other
guy says, yay,
that's a pretty good Jones.
He was in the Marines, and he's
the one that never come back.
He got killed on Okinawa because
they were shooting at them
this way, and they come back.
They come back around
on the side of them,
and they had to reverse.
They had to turn
themselves and what
I understand is that the major
said that your brother was
shot twice in the neck--
two shells.
He said, he never
knew what hit him.
And that makes me feel good.
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