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[Annotator’s Note: Video and sound is very choppy throughout this segment. You can also hear chattering in the...

Ben Steele was on a detail when he passed out on the side of the road, stricken with malaria. When he was finally able...

James Gaffney discusses transition back into civilian life and his home life with two new children following his return...

Harold Joslin and his fellow prisoners of war tried to keep their humor up. There was a Japanese guard who marched them...

By the time John McGlohon arrived on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], the Japanese war effort was...

William Stewart wore fatigues with big pockets. He would keep pocketbooks and would read while he waited in lines. He...

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

Bruno S. Rinas remained in Mariveles [Annotator's Note: Mariveles, Luzon, Philippines] for a day before being marched...

Oliver Donald Anthony Babbits was in engineering school when the Army decided to cancel the program. He was sent to...

Windom Joseph Burton went into Navy boot camp in Norfolk [Annotator's Note: Norfolk, Virginia] and was then sent for...

Raymond Bailey was born and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Jobs at the time only paid about one dollar per day....

Merrill was aboard the Saratoga [Annotator's Note: USS Saratoga, CV-3] both times she was torpedoed.When they left...

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