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Frank Savage's first duty was to acclimate to the climate and patrol up the coast of New Guinea. The Japanese had moved...

As Charles Wesley Borders' squadron [Annotator's Note: 82nd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 71st Tactical...

James J. Hill lived through one tough experience. It was the mission that Pappy was shot down [Annotator’s Note: later...

[Annotator’s Note: various noises in the background throughout this segment.] John Bruce served in the army as a radio...

Burton Johnson had multiple locations where Japanese prisoners were held in New Guinea. There was still hard fighting...

The division [Annotator's Note: 31st Infantry Division] was then transferred to the island of Morotai [Annotator's Note...

Charles Wesley Borders retired from the United States Air Force on 1 September 1971. He got to be a Wing Commander...

Henry Ratcliff sailed into Oro Bay in New Guinea [Annotator's Note: as a member of the 860th Aviation Engineer...

After a 21-day voyage across the Pacific, Mort Oman arrived in Buna, New Guinea and was sent to a replacement depot...

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

Irwin Schneider's job was not overly exciting [Annotator's Note: he was in command of an ordnance depot at Milne Bay in...

[Annotator's Note: William Smith was flying out of Charters Towers, Australia]. They were shipped from Port Moresby to...

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