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Soon after the war ended, Robert “Bob” Bowron was sent overseas to the Pacific. He boarded a ship with 4,000 troops....

Aristide "A.D." Durio was born in Sunset, Louisiana in July 1926 and grew up there. His father worked in rice fields,...

[Annotator's Note: Throughout this clip, a person off-camera answers a lot of the interviewer's questions or gives...

James Richard O'Rorke was born in Washington, Pennsylvania [Annotator's Note: in September 1922] which is known for...

After the Raid [Annotator's Note: the liberation of the Los Banos Internment Camp on 23 February 1945; Los Banos, Luzon...

Pedro Parra feels that most veterans of the war did not talk too much about it. The young people have no idea what it...

[Annotator’s Note: There are various noises in the background throughout this segment.] John Bruce was born in northern...

Since Alfred Dearman would be in the cellblock with the prisoners [Annotator's Note: at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan],...

After spending months trying to kill Japanese, Oran Harris now had to live with them. He felt sorry for the civilians,...

James Billingsley encountered quite a bit of Japanese resistance going up Highway 17 [Annotator's Note: now Emilio...

Paul A. Franklin was born in in February 1922 in Elm Grove, Louisiana. He was raised during the Great Depression [...

At Fort Snelling [Annotator's Note: near Bloomington, Minnesota], Donald Draxler and his father enlisted in the Army....

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