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Brooks and the other sailor were loaded into the truck and taken to a small camp with other POWs. In the area were some...

Lester Shapiro did not know anything about getting a Bronze Star [Annotator's Note: the Bronze Star Medal is the fourth...

[Annotator’s Note: Interviewee randomly claps his hands throughout segment.] Harold Hughes served with the 1305th Army...

Roy Uthes arrived in Myitkyinā without any combat experience. His unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 209th Engineer...

Elmo Espree was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in September 1921. His family moved to Los Angeles, California in 1923...

William Disanza was in the Boy Scouts as a kid but it did not prepare him for Burma. Disanza had originally joined the...

Joseph McGuire was sent to India in 1943. The British controlled everything in India, so he had to get permission from...

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

Cortland Claus was born in May 1925 in Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada. He spent his first 10 years going through grade four...

Herbert Gross has a vivid memory of an experience with the B-24 [Annotator's Note: Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy...

Esther McNeil grew up on a farm in western Pennsylvania. She was the sixth of eight children.After going into nursing...

John Alison flew into China in a worn out P-40 [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter aircraft] that was...

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