Interview with David W. Collins, May 14, 1987

Project: American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project

Interview Summary

2nd Lt. Collins served with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division; served as a replacement officer in the Normandy Invasion; describes voyage across the English Channel-- attack on the Sunken Roads-- break through at Saint-Lo - mentions Bartholmeow and Mortain; describes fighting through the hedgerows-- marching through Paris - reactions of the Parisans to liberation-- fighting at the foothills of Schnee Eifel - describes German fortifications-- American attack-- German counterattack-- moving through the Hurtgen Forest-- hospitalization in Leige - wounded by German buzz bomb

Interview Accession

1987oh064_ww079

Interviewee Name

David W. Collins

Interviewer Name

Arthur L. Kelly

Interview Date

1987-05-14

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Collins, David W. Interview by Arthur L. Kelly. 14 May. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Collins, D.W. (1987, May 14). Interview by A. L. Kelly. American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Collins, David W., interview by Arthur L. Kelly. May 14, 1987, American Veterans: World War Two Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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