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James Shelton Scales boarded a troop ship on New Year's Eve, 1944. He boarded APA-154, the Lowndes [Annotator's Note:...

Claire Maddox was born in Pittsburg, Kansas in 1924 [Annotator's Note: April 1924]. He had two older brothers. It was a...

Benjamin Hagans was born in July 1929 in Cebu, the Philippines. His father was an engineer in Cuba. His father was an...

Eugene N. James was born in Brewton, Alabama. His father was a Methodist minister, and they spent a lot of time in West...

Wanda Damberg and her fellow internees witnessed three young men from their group attempt an escape [Annotator’s Note:...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher thought the B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29 Superfortress very heavy bomber] was the...

Another problem they had was when they 1st arrived on the island they ran out of food. When they landed they had the...

Tinian was only about nine days [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tinian, 24 July to 1 August 1944, Tinian, Mariana Islands...

Paul Sparacino's father was in the Army [Annotator's Note: during World War 2] but did not really talk about it....

Connick recalls the atmosphere of New Orleans during the war. He remembers men being replaced by stars in the window [...

Wiley discussed how the natives found a large canoe that they could use. They filled the holes in the canoe with sap...

Burton Johnson had over 1,500 Japanese prisoners in the massive POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp in...

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