Oral history interview with Bud Warns, 1999.

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Oral history interview with Bud Warns, 1999.

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Bud Warns, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin veteran, discusses his World War II service in the 5th Army as an escort with the bodyguard detail for General Mark Clark, Allied commander in Italy. Sent to Vienna (Austria) via France near the end of the war, Warns talks about riding in the motorcycle escort unit, duty as a driver and a bodyguard in a twenty-man unit, and being promoted to sergeant on his birthday. He touches upon treatment of enlisted men by General Clark, security arrangements when the General was on foot, and getting his picture taken with General Dwight Eisenhower. Warns talks about the cars he drove, including one of Hitler's captured cars that Warns later saw on tour in the United States. He mentions chamois hunting trips in Bavaria with Generals Clark and Eisenhower and visiting Dachau Concentration Camp, where he was impressed by the smell. Warns talks about spending time with General J. Lawton Collins, Mrs. Clark, and General George Patton. Warns comments on saluting, tending to Pal, General Clark's dog, and being put in the Army for one day so that he could accompany the General to Madison. He mentions being a member of the VFW. He recalls an incident in Milano when the General wanted to drive the vehicle. Warns touches on getting paid by the General, getting free cigarettes, learning to pilot the General's airplane, and flying a mission to fetch seltzer water for the General. He discusses screening reporters for security, seeing the General promote someone for being vigilant during watch duty, and asking Eisenhower to be sent home. Warns comments on his later encounters with Eisenhower and Clark, exercising Clark's Lipizzaner-breed horse, staging photographs, and visiting a variety of locations in Europe, including uneasy trips through the Russian zone in Vienna. Throughout the interview he references photographs of his experiences.

Sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 75 min.) ; analog, 1 7/8 ips.Videorecording : 1 videocassette (ca. 75 min.) ; sd., col. 1/2 in.Master sound recording : 1 sound cassette (ca. 75 min.) ; analog, 1 7/8 ips.

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Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center

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