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In mid 1942, Jack Leaming and approximately 60 other prisoners of war, POWs, were transferred to a camp in Osaka. The...

Wallace McKay did have bad feelings towards the Japanese. He married a Canadian woman. He was concerned about the Nazis...

The war made John Snyder more passionate. His love of children and helping others came from his work in the war. At his...

Joseph LaNier exited San Francisco toward Pearl Harbor. Everything that LaNier saw when he went into the Navy was new...

Harper Gruber was born in November 1924 in his grandmother's home town of Branchville, South Carolina, where the doctor...

In 1940, Randall Edwards boarded the submarine tender USS Canopus (AS-9) in Tsingtao, China. The Canopus was a "mother...

While overseas, Robert Savage was aware of Japanese propaganda that was being broadcast. Savage says Tokyo Rose [...

Edmond Guidry was 900 miles south of Honolulu [Annotator's Note: Honolulu, Hawaii aboard the USS Ellet (DD-398)] when a...

Ralph Burch was born in August 1923 in Port Arthur [Annotator’s Note: Port Arthur, Texas]. He lived close to the canals...

When Paul Lawrence arrived in New Guinea, the fighting had gone further up the coast. They did see some Bettys [...

Only two of them were assigned to capital ships [Annotator's Note: after graduating from the US Naval Academy] and both...

Jack Dye was still in the Navy when the war was over. They took their load of fuel to Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan...

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