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Being Captured

Joseph Brannan was sent on a train to San Diego, California for boot camp after he enlisted in the United States Navy....

James Paul Lynch was on the Wainwright [Annotator's Note: USS Wainwright (DD-419)] until June 1942 in the North...

Lester Hecht and his outfit [Annotator's Note: Marine Aircraft Group 32 (MAG-32)] trained pilots in Honolulu [Annotator...

Gravois didn't get any sleep during the 2 nights he was on Tarawa. The Japanese tried to infiltrate their lines, but...

Theodore Pavlovich was born on 19 August 1923 in Leith, Pennsylvania, one of seven children in a close-knit family. His...

[Annotator's Note: Snyder pauses the interview several times and repeats statements frequently in this segment.] In...

Basic training was rough for Raymond Loidolt. He was 18. It was lot of climbing with full packs on. Once you go through...

Flashing back, Mark Brannon said that after the USS Hutchins (DD-746) left Cairns, Australia the captain [Annotator's...

Wiley discussed how the natives found a large canoe that they could use. They filled the holes in the canoe with sap...

James "Jim" Tubach was assigned to an Army group [Annotator's Note: 96th Infantry Division] out in the hills looking...

Sterling Baker's records say that at Casablanca [Annotator's Note: Casablanca, Morocco] he was patrolling a lagoon, but...

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