Interviewed by:
Grant Putnam

"People escaping. Different modes of getting out of East Berlin. Some of them, I presume, are still classified, I don’t know. But the sites I saw were, and the way people did it,
it was unbelievable what people would do for freedom."
~ Bill Wildman (00:17:25)

Bill Wildman's Story:

Bill Wildman grew up in Swansea. He was drafted and went to Fort Gordon and Fort Riley for training. Then he was sent to Berlin, Germany, with the United States Army as a member of the Military Police. One memory he recall's from his service is the thoughts of the people he saw that tried to escape from East Berlin. After his service he moved back to Massachusetts where he met and married a woman from Berlin. Every so often Bill Wildman goes back to Berlin to visit his wife's family.