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Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

Samuel Malta was based in Brooklyn New York as a military escort for the war dead. It was rough duty. He had to sign...

Thomas Kolesa was born in July 1924. He married at 18 and had three children. He is originally from Illinois and moved...

Batavia [Annotator's Note: now Jakarta, Indonesia] was the last camp Joseph DeMott [Annotator's Note: a prisoner of war...

Leo William Schmittgens trained with a M1 rifle [Annotator's Note: .30 caliber M1 semi-automatic rifle, also known as...

Stanley Richard Williams was born in May 1926 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He grew up on Wheeling Island with his...

After William Earl Gast left the field hospital, he searched for his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company A, 743rd Tank...

Alfred Anthony Alvarez's unit [Annotator's Note: 7th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Infantry Division] was given a new...

Richard Hebert, Sr. was born in June 1926 in Jennings, Louisiana with three brothers and three sisters. His brother...

Lyle Bird was assigned as a signalman and bugler aboard the USS Okanogan (APA-220) in the Pacific at the end of the war...

Oran Harris did not know the exact nature of his mission on Palawan Island until he reached the prison. A Navy ship in...

[Annotator's Note: All of the locations listed in this clip are in the Philippines.] Robert Prince remembers New Year's...

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