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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: T/5 Buck Winters, U.S. Army Engineers, WWII
Description: Roger "Buck" Winters was a recent high school graduate working at a tool factory in Texas when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He immediately wanted to quit his job and join the U.S. Army Air Corps. The government would not let him do either of those things at first. Winters would join the Army in 1943 and get trained as an engineer. He would be deployed to Guadalcanal and then to Cebu in the Philippines, where he would have a front row seat to history.In this edition of "Veterans Chronicles," 100-year-old Buck Winters tells us...