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On Easter morning, 1 April 1945, Andrew Petrus [Annotator's Note: with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment...

Ben Steele was told the war was over by a Japanese officer. At first, the Americans did not believe him, but American B...

Keith Renstrom joined the Marine Corps on 13 June 1940. He went through boot camp in San Diego. He was raised on a farm...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

After the war, Richard H. Kerr enlisted into the regular Navy and remained in service for 30 years. His first...

Walter Amoss feels nostalgic when he visits the museum [Annotator's Note: The National WWII Museum in New Orleans,...

On several occasions, Robert Lents and his fellow prisoners outmaneuvered their Japanese captors. [Annotator's Note:...

Rex James Bates served with the 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the Pacific. They were based out of Guam [...

William Pierce was born in Queens Village Long Island, New York in January 1925. He grew up in Queens and attended...

Wim de Jonge's Japanese captors disrespected the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war]. Prisoners would be beaten...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] labored at a Japanese port with an American prisoner named...

[Annotator's Note: There is talking in the background.] Byron Herbert Meader was in the dispatch office [Annotator's...

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