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Thomas Houdek was not afraid during war. His most vivid memory involves a man who died during captivity. Houdek felt...

Guy Stern's fellow interrogator and friend, Kurt Jasen, was nearby on Omaha Beach and called for Stern to come over and...

When they were in the prisoner of war camp in Serbia the Serbs would go out on work details. Milosevich was able to...

Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was liberated by Russian soldiers [Annotator's Note: he was a prisoner of war in Stalag III-B...

American paratroopers arrived at John S. Johnson's prison camp to tell the prisoners to stay put until they could be...

Photograph. U.S. President Harry Truman presenting the Congressional Medal of Honor to General Jonathan M. Wainwright....

[Annotator's Note: Frank Finklang served with the 419th Bombardment Squadron, 301st Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force...

Ralph Griffith said the worst part of being a prisoner was the uncertainty. They never got any news. They had no idea...

Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: was an American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] and...

Arturo Camacho remembers going down to the docks, and coming away with a canteen full of brown sugar that had been...

Lawrence Richard "Red" Gilbert and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company F, 1st Ranger Battalion] were under heavy fire...

Harold “Hal” Leith [Annotator’s Note: as a member of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS), the forerunner of the...

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