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[Annotator’s Note: After being captured in North Africa by Germans and sent to Italy,] Olin Pickens boarded an...

Lyle Bouck thought about escaping twice. Reid [Annotators Note: Bouck’s friend Matt Reid] and Bouck were on a detail...

The Germans had diverted two divisions to deal with this salient in their rear echelon. They did not know what these...

John Singlaub had a problem getting into the POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp on Hainan Island. The...

Kenneth J. Hanson [Annotator’s Note: serving with the 410th Infantry Regiment, 103rd Infantry Division] recalled a time...

Joseph Kagan remembers crossing the Rhine River. The Germans were on the high ground and shooting at the bridge....

On 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii] was attacked by the Japanese and the...

After completing his training, Mort Walker volunteered for overseas duty because he had heard that once the war was...

Benjamin Albert Glusing's friends operated the prisoner of war stockade on New Caledonia. Glusing liked to visit his...

Joseph Yourkavitch was a prisoner for about eight months. There was no radio in the camp and there was no word of the...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a former prisoner of war in Japan] was a product of the Depression [Annotator'...

Robert Guitard went to Livorno [Annotator's Note: Livorno, Italy] to a replacement depot. They got news that General...

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