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Joseph “Joe” Grossman was born in 1927 in Syracuse, New York. He had seven siblings, and his father was self-employed...

Randolph Daniel landed on Wake Island after the bombs dropped on Japan in August [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons...

Arthur Smith did not burden his children with World War 2. It became current in his life as a result of his youngest...

[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was a prisoner of war of the Japanese and was working as slave laborer on the...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was on many islands [Annotator's Note: in the Pacific Ocean] but the names escape him. There was...

News that the war had ended seemed to daze Randall Edwards and his fellow prisoners of war initially. Once they got...

After the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Alois Kopp was a pharmacist's mate aboard the USS Houston (CA-30) prior to its sinking. He was captured by the Japanese...

Gene Alair went into Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen, Philippines, 6 January 1945], the spot...

After the war, Robert Lents hated the Japanese. He said the Australians took over the island on which he had been kept...

Arthur Smith and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 13 (MTBRon 13)] set up their shore base in...

Howard Robert Charles was part of the prisoner of war force that worked 14 months on building the Burma Railroad from...

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