Charles Hill

“I enlisted in 1940 at the ripe old age of 15. I didn't think it was too young. I felt ten feet tall. I went to the European Theater in February of 1944 and stayed in England until D-Day. My outfit, the 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion, entered France two weeks later. The vehicle that we drove was a tank destroyer called the Hellcat 1. We didn't do city fighting, we fought out in the open. Our tank was made to hit and run, and when German tanks came into view, we'd shoot them and then we'd hide again. We had a 76mm gun that would knock out almost any German tank.”