On the eve of Veterans Day, homage was paid to World War II veterans and the iconic Sherman tanks that helped win the war. Those tanks are now 80 years old, and the soldiers that rode them to victory are in their late 90s. GusoffTV has the story.
Those tanks are now 80 years old, and the soldiers that rode them to victory are in their late 90s, CBS2's Carolyn Gusoff reported Thursday.
"The noise, the mud, the thought of being inside of one of them and being attacked with guns that were more powerful than your armor could stop," said Frank Pascale, a volunteer at the Museum of American Armor in Old Bethpage. "It was designed to be maintained in the field, easily repairable. So all these things combined to kind of narrow that gap, the advantage the German armor might have had," said Kevin Carroll of the Museum of American Armor."It brings back a lot of memories, I spent day and night," Jim Andreadis said."It was tough for an 18-year-old and I look back at it and I don't know how I survived," he said."Hatches were closed. It was terrible, the smell of the shells.
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