Interview with Hendricks D. Caudill, Jr., August 13, 2002

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about growing up in Eastern Kentucky and deciding to join the military.

Keywords: Blackey, Kentucky; Carcassonne; Letcher County; Pearl Harbor; World War I

Subjects: Letcher County (Ky.); Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.; World War I.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about his basic training experience at several different camps and getting trained in auto mechanics, tank gunnery, and infantry.

Keywords: Camp Bowie, Texas; Camp Maxie, Texas; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Mead, Maryland; Fort Thomas, Kentucky; Queen Mary; basic training; tank destroyer

Subjects: Basic training.; Fort Meade (Md.); Fort Thomas (Ky.); Queen Mary (Steamship); Tank destroyers.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about his trip overseas on the Queen Mary and traveling through Scotland to England.

Keywords: Hagar-the-Horrible; Hitler; Invasion of Normandy; LCI (landing craft for infantry); Land Ho ship; Queen Mary; Scotland; South Hampton, England; U-Boat

Subjects: Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945.; Queen Mary (Steamship); Scotland.; Submarines (Ships)--Germany.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about being shot at by German artillery. Talks about the what the weather was like and what he had to eat in the field.

Keywords: 36th Infantry Division (United States); 7th Army; Marseilles, France; Omaha Beach; Paris, France; Red Ball Express; bazooka; tank destroyers

Subjects: K-rations; Marseille (France); Operation Neptune.; Paris (France); Tank destroyers.; bazooka.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about combat experiences and taking German prisoners.

Keywords: Battle of the Bulge; German prisoners; M-1 Carbine; mortar

Subjects: Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.; Mortar.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about taking spending time in a rest camp and spending Christmas with a French Family.

Keywords: Christmas; Corporal; Dallas, Texas; French Ferry; tank destroyer

Subjects: Christmas.; Tank destroyers.

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about getting mail from home and being wounded.

Keywords: Alsace, France; Austria; Marseilles, France; Oberhoffen; Rhine River; Strasburg; land mine

Subjects: Alsace (France); Land mines.; Marseille (France); Rhine River.; Strasburg (Germany)

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about the end of the war and returning home on the USS Wakefield.

Keywords: American Red Cross; Boston; Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Jackson, Mississippi; USS Wakefield; disablility; discharged; furlough

Subjects: American Red Cross.; Military discharge.; Wakefield (Transport : AP-21)

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Segment Synopsis: Talks about getting married three weeks after he got home. Talks about going to school in Nashville, Tennessee on the G.I. Bill and then moving to Richmond, Kentucky so his wife could finish school at Eastern Kentucky State College. Talks about keeping in touch with people he served with and visiting France in 1991.

Keywords: .; Bronze Star; Combat Infantry Badge; Eastern Kentucky State College; France; GI Bill; Letcher County; Nashville, Tennessee; Purple Heart; Richmond, Kentucky; auto mechanics

Subjects: (Nashville, Tenn.); Automobile mechanics.; Bronze Star Medal (U.S.); Eastern Kentucky State College.; France.; Letcher County (Ky.); Purple Heart.; Richmond (Ky.); United States. Montgomery G.I. Bill.

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Segment Synopsis: Show pictures and objects related to his experience in the war.

Keywords: "T" patch; 36th Infantry Division (United States); France; French Battlefield Tour; Oberhoffen; Vosges Mountains

Subjects: Vosges Mountains (France)