Paul Adams

b. November 15, 1915

served in the United States Army Eigth Infantry Division, Thirteenth Infantry Regiment; retired government employee and farmer

"I could'a got deferment, they tol' me I could. But I wouldn't do it. My sister was on the draft board, an' I said just as sure as I got drafted, I mean I got uh defered, everybody say 'yeah, your sister got it, keep you outa the army' (ha ha)...so I just go an' put in my uh, at that time twelve months is what you, you know that was back before the war, that was in Septmeber before the, before Pearl Harbor. An' uh, I says 'I'll go ahead an' put in my twelve months an' be back home when all the rest of 'ems gone to put in theirs.'"

"They [Germans and Japanese] was like we was, they wadn't out there cause they wanted to be, in a way they was out there by force."

"That's the biggest mistake that the United States ever made. When uh, stoppin' before we got to Berlin and lettin' Russia take Berlin...We shoulda went on...I don't think we'd a lost none [soldiers] cause they was done ready to give up. "

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