Interview with William Boone, Tom D. Reed,

Project: American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project

Interview Summary

began service with the 123rd Horse Cavalry; reorganized into Battery C, 106th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion; talks about gun training; sailing from New York to England to Ireland; training on Bofors guns in Scotland; talks about action in North Africa; protecting an airport at Tafaraorie; mentions Tebessa, Tunsia; talks about evacuating Gafsa; aircraft attacks in Stuka Valley; mentions Kasserine Pass; talks about action in Italy; marching through Sicily; describes the deaths of three Kentucky soldiers; fighting through Salerno; Anzio; talks about artillery barrage from German 88mm guns and break out at Anzio; mentions encounter with the Germans in the Alsace-Lorraine area

Interview Accession

1989oh043_ww118

Interviewee Name

William Boone

Tom D. Reed

Interviewer Name

Arthur L. Kelly

Interview Date

1983

Interview Partial Date

1983

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