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Alois Kopp enlisted in the Navy in September 1937 despite the fact he could not swim. He learned fast. He volunteered...

George F. Mills [Annotator's Note: captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge or German Ardennes Counter...

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

Arthur Seltzer reached Munich, Germany. The troops could tell the war was coming to an end. That was the location of...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

Stationed in the Philippines before the war, James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft...

Charles Fitts, Jr. and the other prisoners were taken to a bunker. There, they realized just how many of the men had...

Robert Rans was discharged from the US Army Air Forces in 1946. He immediately applied and was accepted at Notre Dame [...

Harold Bergbower has no memory of the trip from the POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp in Davao on Mindanao...

Peter Hirschmann [Annotator's Note: a member of Company F, 2nd battalion, 310th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry...

For Robert Rosendahl, fear is what kept him going during the Bataan Death March. The Japanese were barbarians. Very few...

Melvin Munch corresponded with his future wife back home while he was on Okinawa. The letters had to be reviewed by...

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