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When readying for nuclear test, Paul Sparacino and the crew [Annotator's Note: Sparacino served aboard the USS...

Ben Steele had not eaten in three days when he was captured. He was captured after walking out in front of an enemy...

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

Chuck feels that a lot of veterans have embellished their prisoner of war experience. He felt as if it was not that bad...

Walter Bowsher was sent to Hokkaido, Japan to a prisoner of war, or POW, camp. He arrived at Hakodate Number 2 prison...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

Bruno S. Rinas was able to complete the work he was given because he was being fed. He never saw the Japanese shoot...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] and his fellow...

Wim de Jonge arrived at the beginning of the railroad through Thailand which was to be completed in Burma. It was...

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

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

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

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