Interviews with Combat Veterans

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2nd Lieutenant John C. Raaen, Jr., US Army Ranger and engineer who stormed the Beaches of Normandy on D-Day

Leonard Adreon, US Marine corpsman who served in the Korean War

Major Bruce Crandall, US Army helicopter pilot who flew in the Vietnam War

Patrick O’Kelley, US Army paratrooper and sniper who particpated in the 1983 invasion of Grenada

Keene Sherburne, US Marine who served in Iraq and survived two IED explosions

Tyler Vargas-Andrews, US Army soldier who as at Kabul Airport during the ecacuation

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Capt. Bill “Hawk” Albracht, US Army Special Forces operator who saw heavy action in the Vietnam War

Maj. Terry Driscill, US Army Ranger who participated in the 1983 invasion of Grenada

Craig Morgan, US Army paratrooper who particpated in the 1989 invasion of Panama and later became a country music artist

Roland Vandenberg, US Marine who particpated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq

“James,” US volunteer who has seen heavy action in the Ukraine War (part 2 on YouTube)

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Clifford Primus, US Marine who served in World War II

George Walsh, US Navy dive bomber pilot who participated in the decisive Battle of Midway during World War II

William J. Lussier, US Army helicopter pilot who participated in the Vietnam War

Ted Greenly, US Army Ranger who particpated in the 1983 US invasion of Grenada

Colonel Douglas MacGregor, US Army M1A1 Abrams tank commander who particpated in the Battle of 73 Easting during the First Gulf War, has gotten into trouble lately due to having some, errr… pro-Russian opinions

Nivardo Gonzalez, US Marine who saw heavy action in Afghanistan

Jack Murphy, US Army Ranger and sniper who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan

“Yaroslav.” a member of one of Ukraine’s controversial Far Right militias who has seen heavy action in the war against Russia (part 2 on YouTube)

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Dennis Fujii, US Army medevac helicopter crew chief who served in the Vietnam War and survived being shot down in enemy territory

Capt. Larry Taylor, US Army attack helicopter pilot who served in the Vietnam War and survived 4 shootdowns (part 1 of 5, other parts on YouTube)

Marty Green, US Army Ranger who participated in the 1983 US invasion of Grenada

Brad Jacobson, US Army Ranger who saw heavy action in Iraq and was involved in the engagement that resulted in Pat Tillman’s death

Joe MacDonald, British citizen with very little military experience who volunteered to serve in Ukraine (part 1 of 4, other parts on YouTube)

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Staff Sergeant David Thatcher, US Army Air Force bomber gunner who participated in the famous Dolittle Air Raid on Tokyo in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor

Lê Đình Chiên, North Vietnamese Army platoon leader who fought US and South Vietnamese forces

Doug Doerr, US Marine Corps helicopter pilot who participated in the 1982 US invasion of Grenada (part 1 of 3, other parts on YouTube)

Miguel Linares, US Marine who participated in the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the Battle of Nasiriyah

Luis Arguelles, US Army soldier who served in Iraq

Kelsi Sheren, Royal Canadian Army artillery gunner who served in Afghanistan

Brandon Mitchell, British-Canadian who volunteered to serve in Ukraine (part 1 of 4, other parts on YouTube)

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John “Lucky” Luckadoo, US Army Air Force bomber pilot who participated in multiple missions over France and Germany during WWII

Warrant Officer Thái Quang, South Vietnamese Army soldier who fought in the Vietnam War (part 2 on YouTube)

Marty Green, US Army Ranger who participated in the 1982 invasion of Grenada

Sergeant Rudy Reyes, US Force Recon Marine who participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the Battle of Fallujah, also played himself in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill (part 2 on YouTube)

Anonymous member of one of the Israeli Border Police’s elite tactical units shares his experiences fighting Hamas terrorists on October 7th and in the days following

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Lt. Colonel Edward Nebinger, US Army/Air Force pilot who saw action in both World War II and the Korean War

Hân Nguyên, South Vietnamese artillery officer who saw heavy action during the Vietnam War

Jim Bradford, US Army Ranger who participated in the 1982 invasion of Grenada

Corporal Wade Spann, US Marine who participated in the Iraq War

Chris Cleland, US Army soldier who was deployed to Iraq multiple times

Avner Gvaryahu, Israeli Defense Force soldier who served during the tail end of the Second Intifada and later became an activist against the occupation of Palestine

Anonymous member of one of the Israeli Defense Forces elite special forces units describes his experience fighting Hamas terrorists on October 7th (WARNING: he goes into very graphic detail)

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Sergeant James Sharp, US Army soldier who saw heavy action in the Korean War

Alan VanDeBogart, US Marine Corps tank crewman who participated in the Siege of Khe Sahn during the Vietnam War

Chief Warrant Officer Eric Brethen, US Army reconnaissance and attack helicopter pilot who served in the Vietnam War

Bong-Hyun Ye, South Korean Army artilleryman who served in the Vietnam War

Captain James E. Markel, US Marine Corps F-8 Crusader pilot served in the Vietnam War

Vice Admiral Mark Fox, US Navy F/A-18 Hornet pilot who shot down an Iraqi MiG-21 during the First Gulf War

Jonas Kratzenberg, former German military service member who volunteered to serve in Ukraine

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Clifford Primus, US Marine who served in WWII

Manny Carvalho, US Army tank crewman who survived a horrific air attack while at sea during WWII

Don Sanders Jr., US Marine Corps tank crewman who saw action in the Vietnam War

Drago Dzieran, ruthless Polish American US Navy SEAL who saw heavy action in Iraq, proudly calls himself a “terrorist terrorizer” and invented the shaped breaching charge (part 2 on YouTube)

Prime Hall, US Marine Special Forces operator who saw heavy action in Afghanistan

Jay Dorleus, US Army engineer and Special Forces operator who saw heavy action in both Iraq and Afghanistan

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Tom Barry, Commandant of the original Irish Republican Army’s Third West Cork Brigade, talks about his participation in the strategically vital Kilmichael Ambush against a unit of the Royal Irish Constabulary’s brutal Auxiliary Division during the Irish War for Independence in 1920

John “Lucky” Luckadoo, B-17 Flying Fortress pilot in the US 100th Bomber Group, (aka the “Bloody Hundredth”)

John Clark, B-17 Flying Fortress co-pilot in the US 100th Bomber Group

Armando Moreno, US Marine tank crewmen who saw action in the Vietnam War

George Forrest, US Army soldier who participated in the Battle of Ia Drang Valley during the Vietnam War

Aiden Aslin, British citizen with no military experience who volunteered to go to Syria and fight ISIS and then volunteered to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces to fight pro-Russian rebels in the Donbas before the current war began

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Milo Plank, US Marine tank crewman who served in the early years of the Vietnam War

Élida María Galeano Cornejo, a former officer with the Contra militants in Nicaragua who later switched sides and became a Sandinista

Jim Jimenez, US Air Force pilot who participated in the 1986 bombing of Libya and later became a test pilot (other parts on YouTube)

Niloofar Rahmani, former Afghan Air Force servicewoman who faced heavy discrimination during training and went through a number of tense situations as a transport pilot in the failed campaign against the Taliban

Leibel Mangel, US-Israeli Defense Force soldier who saw heavy action fighting Hamas in the 2014 Gaza War and in the days following Oct. 7th

Ariel Bernstein, former IDF soldier who saw heavy action in the 2014 Gaza War and has since become a peace activist

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Lester Schrenk, US Army Air Force bomber gunner who saw heavy action in World War II

Nyugen Van Be, South Vietnamese Army soldier who fought in the final days of the Vietnam War and spent years in a reeducation camp afterwards

Lt. Steve Seager, US Army paratrooper who participated in the 1983 invasion of Grenada

Bob “Ninja” Poras, US Delta Force operator and later CIA agent who participated in the 1989 invasion of Panama and the War on Terror (part 2 on YouTube)

Nick Velez, US Marine who saw heavy action at the Battle of Ramadi during the Iraq War

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Richard Mulcahy, Irish Volunteer who participated in the ill-fated 1916 Easter Rising

Wilbur Myers, US Army tank destroyer gunner who served in World War II

Gerry Hearne, US Marine Corps tank crewman who served in Vietnam

Zahed Haftlang, Iranian conscript who fought in the Iran-Iraq War and later became a peace activist

Sgt. Fernando Arroyo, US Army paratrooper who saw action in Iraq

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An Huu “Andy” Nguyen, South Vietnamese Army Ranger who fought in the Vietnam War

Tom Bradley, US Navy sailor who was onboard the USS Liberty when it was attacked in 1967

Captain Tong Lye Heng, Royal Malaysian Army commando who was gravely wounded fighting Communist insurgents in 1971

Major Abhay Sapru, Indian Army special forces operator who fought insurgents in Sri Lanka

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Harold Brown, US Army Air Force fighter pilot who was with Tuskegee Airmen during World War II

Johnny M. Johnson, US Marine who fought in the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War

Pat Watkins, MACV-SOG operator who served in the Vietnam War

Wally Young, US Marine tank crewmen who served in Vietnam

Jason Grammer, US Army paratrooper who participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq

Commander Rostyslav, Ukrainian special forces operator who took part in the Kharkiv counter-offensive in late 2022

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George “The Troll” Sternberg, MACV-SOG operator who served in the Vietnam War

Leonard Brooks, US Army medic who served in the Vietnam War

Gunnery Sergeant Leo Lozano, US Marine who saw heavy action in the First Gulf War

Colonel Eddie Ray, US Marine officer who saw heavy action in the First Gulf War

Hugh Keir, British Royal Army paratrooper who participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and saw action in Afghanistan (part 2 on YouTube)

Henry “Chavez” Garcia, US Marine who saw heavy action in Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan

Alex Silva, Brazilian volunteer fighting in Ukraine

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Lieutenant Colonel George Hardy, US Army/Air Force fighter pilot who flew combat missions in World War II, Korea and Vietnam

Effie Eitam, Israeli Defense Force commando who saw heavy action in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and 1976 Entebbe Raid (also played a brutal and controversial role during the First and Second Intifadas, but this vid doesn’t cover that)

Commander Ken Enticknap, British Royal Navy officer who was aboard the HMS Ardent when it was attacked and eventually sunk by multiple waves of Argentine air attacks during the Falklands War

Dan “Two Dogs” Hampton, US Air Force fighter pilot who flew combat missions in the First Gulf War, the 1999 NATO intervention in Kosovo, and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq

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In honor of the 80th anniversary of D-Day

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Thomas M. Rice, US Army paratrooper who saw heavy action in World War II

Harald Mayrock, German-Peruvian who was conscripted into the Wehrmacht during WWII

Dan Hoffman, US Marine who fought the Khmer Rouge on the Cambodian island of Koh Tang during the little known 1975 SS Mayaguez Incident

Adam Cuatt, US Army soldier who saw action in Iraq

Tu Lam, US Army Special Forces operator who saw action throughout the War on Terror

Hugh Kier, British Royal Army paratrooper (and current host of the H-Hour podcast) who served in Iraq and Afghanistan (part 2 on YouTube)

Justin, US volunteer who served in Ukraine’s infamous Right-Wing Azov militia unit

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Alexander Jefferson, Burt Lowe and Al Jameson, US Army Air Force fighter pilots with the Tuskegee Airmen who served in World War II

Geneviève de Galard, French Army nurse who was at the brutal and decisive Battle of Dien Bien Phu during the final weeks of the First Indo-China War (Vietnam) in 1954

Reinald Pope, US MACV SOG operator who served in Vietnam

Rich Comer and Gary Weikel, US Air Force helicopter pilots who participated in the Battle of Koh Tang Island during the 1975 SS Mayaguez Incident

Brum Richards, British Royal Navy gunfire liaison officer who served in the Falklands War

Troy Hoffenbecker, former US Marine who fought in Iraq and later volunteered to fight in Ukraine

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