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Remembering Wwii: a Georgia Traveler Special Caption Script REMEMBERING WWII: A GEORGIA TRAVELER SPECIAL CAPTION SCRIPT Music Frank Hanner VO: This museum is designed to remember what the soldier has done for our country. Bud Porter VO: I don’t want anybody to ever forget what we went through in World War II. Betty Robarts VO: They knew that they had to fight for something, and I think this is the thing that the museum really brings out. Music Woman VO: Georgia Traveler is made possible in part by… Man VO: Few places on earth match Georgia for natural beauty, and we plan to keep it that way. We’re Georgia Power, a proud sponsor of public broadcasting. We’re on, so you can be. Georgia Power, a Southern Company. Woman VO: And by supporters of Georgia Public Broadcasting. Thank you. Music David: Hello, and welcome to this special edition of Georgia Traveler, Remembering World War II. Keely: In this episode we’ll be traveling Georgia visiting museums that commemorate that historic event. Phil: We are here at the Georgia Veterans Memorial State Park in Cordele. This site was established in 1946 for the purpose of honoring the many men and women who served during World War II. Music REMEMBERING WWII: A GEORGIA TRAVELER SPECIAL CAPTION SCRIPT Phil: One of the keys to victory for the Allied Forces during World War II was the battle over air supremacy. Now one of the air assault groups that was given that task was the Eighth Bomber Command. Also known as the Mighty Eighth. Music Walter Brown: The Mighty Eighth Air Force was at the end of World War II, the world’s mightiest air armada. Bud Porter: This was the first time that a war was fought in almost stratospheric altitudes. Edward Robarts: The Eighth Air Force lost a little over 10 percent. This is killed in action. Bud Porter: I don’t want anybody to ever forget what we went through in World War II. So this museum is a great vehicle to keep that history alive. Phil VO: Just outside Savannah in Pooler, Georgia, the history of World War II is alive at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. Walter Brown: The museum is 90,000 square feet. It honors every bomb group, every fighter group, and particularly all the support units associated with fighting the war. Music Walter Brown: This museum is not an airplane museum. It definitely is not a war museum. We present the story of the people, the men and women of America. Phil VO: And many of those men and women volunteer their time at the museum to share the story of their experience. Paul Grassey: I was a B-24 pilot. Combat is really a lot of luck to not get hit with something. Either flack, and the way we were flying, machine gun fire, and so on. We had 250,000 that were part of the air crews in the Eighth Air Force. Bud Porter: REMEMBERING WWII: A GEORGIA TRAVELER SPECIAL CAPTION SCRIPT I was a ball turret gunner on a B-17. There is no better ride than riding in a ball turret. You can’t even see your own airplane. You know you’re attached to it, but all you could see was the ground and the sky. And really, it’s fantistic, until they started to shoot at me. Phil VO: Not all stories shared here involve grave danger, but most are about how the experience of war changed lives. Edward Robarts: I had a buddy that I was stationed with in the 15 th Air Force down in southern Italy. And he was writing to a WAVE. He wrote his girlfriend and says, “I’ve got a buddy that, he doesn’t get much mail. His parents are both dead, and why don’t you have some of your girlfriends write him?” About eight of them wrote me, and I answered her letter. And that’s how it got started. Betty Robarts In December of ’44, Ed finished his 35 missions and came home. He asked me to marry him, and I said yes. And the 23 rd of June we were married. Phil VO: Veterans of the Mighty Eighth can teach others about their experience through a special exhibit called the Mission Experience. Bud Porter The first part is right here in this room. This is supposed to be a briefing room, where the crews went in, were briefed on their mission they’re about to fly. When this is finished, then they go through this door and see the ground crews getting the planes ready to go, and then when that’s finished you go into another room, and you actually fly a mission. I’m talking to a fresh audience every time. My wife is tired of hearing my stories. Phil VO: Surely visitors will never tire of hearing the incredible stories of these veterans. Walter Brown: We need to present this story and we need to have the younger generations and older generations appreciate what was done by a unified Allied force during World War II against an enemy of the worst kind. Paul Grassey: We’re plain, vanilla guys who got called and got taught what we had to do to get the job done. And it was a mighty job to get done. Betty Robarts: REMEMBERING WWII: A GEORGIA TRAVELER SPECIAL CAPTION SCRIPT I want them to understand how the people in America felt about the war. They didn’t want their husbands and sons and grandfathers to go over and get killed, but they knew that they had to fight for something. And I think this is the thing that the museum really brings out. This is what they did. Bud Porter: I want everybody that leaves this museum to say to themselves, “My God, what a great experience!” Music David: A key element for the Allied Forces’ success on D-Day was the mission of the U.S. Paratroopers. And many of these elite soldiers actually trained at Camp Toccoa in northeast Georgia. And the Currahee Military Museum honors all U.S. paratroopers, including those responsible for carrying out the strategic mission. David VO: Lt. Reed Pelfrey was the 14 th American to step foot in Normandy on D-Day. Reed Pelfrey: This aerial photo was taken on June the 6 th , and this is Pointe du Hoc. You can see the bomb craters, the shell craters. And many of them are there still today. David VO: Pelfrey was a paratrooper of the 101 st Airborne, and the Currahee Military Museum in Toccoa, Georgia honors soldiers like him who served their country with bravery and honor. Reed Pelfrey: On D-Day, both the 501 and the 506, along with the original TO&E Regiment, the 502, jumped into Normandy. The 101 st jumped in this area. The 502, the 501, and the 506. We had planes going in all directions, and it was about 20 square miles that people were dropped. David VO: The 506, known as Easy Company, originated here at Camp Toccoa, and have since become the most famous of the paratroopers, featured in movies like The Dirty Dozen , and more recently Saving Private Ryan , and the 10-part miniseries, Band of Brothers . Reed Pelfrey: This is a board of Dick Winters, who commanded Easy Company during Normandy. Brenda Carlan: REMEMBERING WWII: A GEORGIA TRAVELER SPECIAL CAPTION SCRIPT You know, it’s a known fact that most soldiers become very close during war. A lot of them will trust a fellow soldier more than they would trust their own brother. So that was kind of how the terminology came up, Band of Brothers. Reed Pelfrey: The average trooper, I would say, would be about five-foot-eight. Average weight would be about 140 . By the time you got all the equipment on you, especially if it was combat load, they’d go up to maybe 300 pounds. David VO: Camp Toccoa at Currahee Mountain was the birthplace of the US paratrooper training program, and the training ground for approximately 17,000 soldiers of the 501 st , 506 th , 511 th , and 517 th regiments. Brenda Carlan: E Company, 506 was the first regiment to come here in July of 1942. While they were here in Toccoa, they had to go through strenuous, very, very strenuous and tedious and continuous physical activity. Part of it was running up Currahee Mountain, which was three miles up and three miles down. Reed Pelfrey: You ran the mountain every morning before breakfast, and if you fouled up during training, you ran it again with full gear. David VO: The centerpiece of this museum is a racing horse stable from England, which housed both Able and Easy company prior to and after D-Day. Brenda Carlan: And when they left here they were stationed 40 miles west of London in a town or a village called Aubourn. And there were only 700 residents at that time. Well all of the sudden they have about 10,000 soldiers to deal with. And some of them were still required to sleep in tents. So the stables were kind of the Taj Mahal of housing during World War II. And this particular stable that we have here was one that was never torn down over the years, because the owners of it knew who stayed in that stable. Reed Pelfrey: These displays here are paraphernalia that was memorabilia that we got out of, or they got out of the stalls when they were disassembling them to bring to the U.S.
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