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Batavia [Annotator's Note: now Jakarta, Indonesia] was the last camp Joseph DeMott [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war...

Wilfred Hanson [Annotator's Note: with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] was assigned...

Chuck feels that a lot of veterans have embellished their prisoner of war experience. He felt as if it was not that bad...

Mark Brannon was given a 30 day terminal leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time],...

[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

[Annotators Note: Robert Addison served in the US Marine Corps in the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.] After Bloody Ridge...

Barbara Butler wrote home frequently. She tried to explain to her family what she was going through and to reassure...

Buck Donaldson could handle the movie machine. They took the troops from San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco...

Marine Corps boot camp was not bad for Ed Weber. They needed bodies then, so it was not that bad. Today, boot camp is...

Harlan Twible and many others saw the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] as it went down. They were...

Sidney Philips remembers the trip overseas as sitting around the boat chewing fingernails. Life aboard a troopship is...

Charles Brooks witnessed opportunities through his World War 2 experiences that he never would have otherwise seen....

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