Oral History: Donald Green 9-Jul-14, 20140709.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Genre:

Internet videos.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

online resource (video file 1:04:03) : Sound, Colour

Place of Publication:

9-Jul-14,

Summary:

T/5 Donald Green was born 25 April 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was drafted into the United States Army in March of 1944. Don trained as an infantry man and assigned to a mortar squad with the 106th Infantry Division. Within the squad they rotated duties, serving as the observer, gunner, and ammo barrier. Donald was transported with his unit to England arriving the day after D-Day. During the Battle of the Bulge, his mortar squad and another mortar squad fired 400 rounds the first day. He remembers initially everything was very confusing during the Battle of the Bulge. He was overwhelmed by the snow reaching depths of over two feet in some places and the incredible cold at times well below zero. When he heard about the massacre of American soldiers at Malmedy by German SS soldiers, he knew if he took any Germans prisoners he might kill them. Donald was eventually pulled out of the front lines as result of his foot becoming gangrenous and frost bitten. He was told he may lose the foot; however, the doctor attending him gave him a massive dose of penicillin which saved his foot. Donald was discharged in May of 1946 and returned to St. Louis, Missouri.

Notes:

Description based on online resource (viewed on 12 June, 2019).

Archive Reference: OH.3244.