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Betty Sue Drake was born in November 1924 in Winston County, Alabama, where she graduated from high school. Pearl...
Robert Stephen Bebko was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in October 1925. There were three girls and five boys in his family...
Alfred Dietrick was born in December 1921 in San Antonio, Texas. His life was happy. His father was a carpenter when he...
John Edward Love was born in Clovis, New Mexico in August 1922. His father abandoned his family during the Great...
Henry Quinton Pike [Annotator's Note: An announcement interrupts interview from 0:00:19.000 to 0:00:36.000] was born in...
Philip Mayer was born in June 1925 in Hollister, California where his family had a ranch. In 1930, his family moved to...
Earl Angel was born in August 1923 in Hanover, Pennsylvania. He had ten siblings, four sisters and six brothers. His...
Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. was born in Burns, Kansas. His father was a rural mail carrier to support his family...
Harris H. Levee was born in August 1919 in Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, New York [Annotator's Note: Brooklyn is one of...
Mary Cummings was born in Dunkirk, New York in April 1921. It was the Depression [Annotator's Note: the Great...
Elsie Marie "Kitty" Rippin was born in Ellinger, Texas in January 1924. She moved around a lot with her family during...
Mrs. P.A. "Tippy" Foster was born in December 1920 in Kaufman, Texas. She grew up in East Texas as one of seven...
James Downing and a group of boot camp comrades signed up together for the USS West Virginia (BB-48). At six years old...
Carl Robert Gatlin was born in January 1920 in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi. He grew up with two younger sisters in his...
Edward F. Kent was born in November 1917 and grew up with one older sister. During the Great Depression [Annotator's...
James Stewart Rosenbaum was born in Chicago, Illinois in August 1925. His father was an insurance and hat salesman. He...
[Annotator's Note: This clip begins in mid-conversation between Virgil Clayton Moen and the interviewer.] Moen was born...
Charles Taylor was born in December 1923 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. Taylor recalls growing up during the Great...
William Graham Jameson was born on 29 April 1929 in Rochester, New York. During the Great Depression [Annotator's Note...
Earl Wergin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in May 1927. As a boy, he and his family moved to New York City [Annotator...
Jules Levin remembered he knew he would be drafted once the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. He received his draft...
Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. bailed out of his B-17 [Annotator's Note: a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber named “...
[Annotator's Note: Joseph O'Donnell was a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft IV near Gross Tychow, Pomerania, now Tychowo,...
[Annotator's Note: In March 1945, Louis Liberato was moved from the Stalag XII-A prisoner of war camp in Limburg,...
Ernest L. Poulson and the other prisoners were taken to a prison in Bucharest [Annotator's Note: Bucharest, Romania]....
In the summer of 1944, John J. Connelly was captured by Germans after he bailed out of his plane and was transferred to...
Ben Skardon was first incarcerated at Camp O'Donnell [Annotator's Note: former American military reservation on Luzon,...
Daniel Crowley, now a prisoner of war, reached the Cabanatuan [Annotator's Notes: Cabanatuan, Philippines] prison camp...
Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] was taken [...
Chester J. Butcher [Annotator's Note: a fighter pilot with the 357th Fighter Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, 8th Air...
Donald E. Casey [Annotator’s Note: whose Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber was shot down over Hamburg, Germany...
Stationed in the Philippines before the war, James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft...
Theodore Noel Carder and his platoon [Annotator's Note: in the 23rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 7th Armored Division]...
Seymour "Sy" Lichtenfeld was stripped of his valuables after he was taken prisoner of war. [Annotator's Note:...
Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. first encountered Japanese assault troops soon after Devereux [Annotator's Note: then US Marine...
Howard Robert Charles became a prisoner of war [Annotator's Note: after the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30) in...

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