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

Robert Dickinson boarded the newly commissioned USS Queenfish (SS-393) as a Seaman Second Class. It didn't seem like he...

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

David Lehigh was told he would be deploying overseas, but was not told where he would be going. He departed from Mather...

On the morning of 7 December [Annotator's Note: the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 December 1941],...

Eventually, Bougainville was taken [Annotator's Note: Bougainville campaign, part of the Solomon Islands Campaign at...

Willis Mills was attending Hayward High [Annotator’s Note: Hayward High School in Hayward, California] when he decided...

Chuck recalls being stripped naked with his hands locked behind his head. The Japanese would hit them with a giant...

Bruce McCormick was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania and lived there until 1939 when they moved to Chesapeake, Virginia....

James Gulotta did not have any friends to keep up with after the war. They were all either killed or maimed. His unit [...

Robert Freligh’s father died when he was two and a half years old. His mother worked full time as a pharmacist but was...

As commanding officer of fighter squadron VMF-111 [Annotator's Note: Marine Fighter Squadron 111 (VMF-111)] in Dallas [...

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