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Olin Pickens dealt with nightmares for years after his time in captivity as a prisoner of war, often dreaming about...

Thomas Michael Holt [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war] had access to a hidden radio. With the new POWs [Annotator's...

While he was a prisoner in Italy, Paul Carter nearly starved. Before leaving Rome [Annotator's Note: Rome, Italy] his...

Eugene Dorsey’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when a German POW [Annotator’s Note: prisoner of war] fell...

Harley Reynolds was one of the first people under fire during the invasion of North Africa. Reynolds saw fighting on...

Alexander Jefferson went into Stalag Luft III [Annotator's Note: then in Sagan, Germany; now Żagań, Poland] with about...

While he was a prisoner, Dominic Martello was leaning over getting a head of cabbage when a German soldier came along,...

Eugene Dorsey was assigned to the Navy Armed Guard and spent fourteen months in the Mediterranean on the SS Houston...

It gradually sunk in to Rothacker Smith that he was a prisoner of war as he believed for the first couple of days in...

Dominic Martello thinks Kasserine Pass should be remembered as a screw-up. It was a mess. Generals got captured. In an...

William Blanckenburg was alongside a creek and the Germans were on the other side. This was before Blanckenburg got...

Edward LaPorta and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] got a lot of things done in the camp [Annotator...

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