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Skaggs, Jack POW in Osaka
Jack Skaggs was transferred from the Kiangwan POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp to Osaka, Japan in August...
McGlohon, John Photographing the Atomic Bomb Cloud
By the time John McGlohon arrived on Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], the Japanese war effort was...
Boutwell, George Alabama Boy to Marine Training
George N. Boutwell was born in July 1924 in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up with one older brother and a younger sister...
Costa, Anthony Fall of the Philippines
[Annotator's Note: Anthony Costa begins this segment by discussing his transfer to Japan aboard one of the prisoner of...
Childs, J. Pearl Harbor Aftermath
The day after the Pearl Harbor attack, J. W. Childs went to the USS Nevada (BB-36) which had managed to get underway...
Daniels, Don Hawaii to Iwo Jima
In Hawaii, Don Daniels was at Camp Tarawa. Before getting there, he was loading ships for Iwo [Annotator's Note: Iwo...
Glusing, Benjamin End of the War
Benjamin Albert Glusing was on an inspection trip on New Caledonia [Annotator's Note: as part of 39th Military Police...
Smith,James "Horse Collar" Segment 6
James Smith recalled that the Japanese attacked at around nine that night and things were going bad. A number of...
Steele, Ben Life as a POW
Ben Steele was on a detail when he passed out on the side of the road, stricken with malaria. When he was finally able...
Pryor, Frank Early Life and Becoming a Marine
Frank Lloyd Pryor was born in Wilson, Oklahoma in January 1926. His father worked as a telegraph operator for a...
Hatch, Norman Pearl Harbor Day
Norman Hatch was in New York at the March of Time [Annotator's Note: an American newsreel series sponsored by Time...

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