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John Ream remembers as kids they could run up the mountainside. [Annotator’s Note: Ream is referring to being interned...
The Japanese were friendly towards children, so Angus Lorenzen did not fear them. He talked with them until about four...
Robert Whitcomb was put in a compound with Polish prisoners who had been there for six years [Annotator's Note: at...
After surrendering to the German soldier [Annotator's Note: see segment titled Shot Down Over Ludwigshafen], John Sacks...
James Read Kirk was taken to Budapest [Annotator's Note: Budapest, Hungary] where he was put into prison [Annotator's...
Frank Dolsen [Annotator's Note: with the 349th Bombardment Squadron, 100th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force] bailed out...
[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and then escaping from prison camp] Olin Pickens followed a river into...
[Annotator's Note: William Albright had to bail out of his Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber over Germany on 26...
A small contingent of Hungarian soldiers from Letenye [Annotator's Note: Letenye, Hungary] took Robert Bueker and kept...
John Angier had been shot down over Cologne, Germany, nearly beaten to death by civilians and saved from them by German...
[Annotator's Note: George Joseph Sullivan was captured by the Japanese during the Battle of Peleliu.] There was nothing...
Louis Liberato went into Wiltz [Annotator's Note: Wiltz, Luxembourg] to rest and recuperate. On 16 December [Annotator'...
On 27 March 1945, Fiske Hanley II and his flight crew [Annotator's Note: with the 504th Bombardment Group, 313th...
Herndon Inge Junior's first action was when they [Annotator's Note: Company D, 1st Battalion, 301st Infantry Regiment,...
At one point, Paul Carter was in an action where he put more ammunition through his rifle than at any other time. What...
James McDermott had bailed out of his stricken Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and could see it still going North. In 2007...
Cawthon “C.B.” Perdue Jr. was assigned to the 561st Bombardment Squadron, 388th Bombardment Group, 8th Air Force as a...
Michael Linquata participated in a battle that occurred in bitter cold. The weapons froze and would not fire. While...
In 1944, after bailing out of his damaged aircraft, Irving Baum [Annotator's Note: a bombardier with the 407th...
After Japan captured the Philippines [Annotator's Note: Fall of the Philippines, invasion by the Empire of Japan, 8...
Guy Stern was given the duty of editing the interrogation reports they produced as investigators of war criminals after...
After arriving in Southern France, Thomas Houdek and the rest of his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion,...
They [Annotator's Note: Anthony Acevedo and his fellow soldiers of the 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division...
Irving Becker never talks much about his combat experiences, unlike some people who talk about their battlefield or...
Melvin L. Baker was born in November 1919 in Marysville which is near his current home in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. He...
Obie Wickersham was back in the United States for a while, having fun and working for a garage, when a captain in the...
Alexander Jefferson's plane name was "Bubble Blue Subsoil." [Annotator's Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...
Madeleine Peters experienced a lengthy paperwork process preparing to come to America. Her husband had a similar...
Roy H. Matsumoto returned to the United States and decided to stay in the Army. He extended his term of service only to...
Harold Joslin was an intercept operator [Annotator's Note: communication code specialist who interpreted enemy coded...
[Annotator's Note: Throughout the clip, Clarence Edward "Ed" Riggs, Jr. refers to papers he is holding as he discusses...
For Robert Inghram, Dieppe was his big day [Annotator's Note: the Allied raid on Dieppe, France in August 1942]. That...
Martin Richard was moved to several different places. They were in some town between the frontlines and Paris. They...
Josefine "Piepsi" Joyce was born in Vienna, Austria in December 1925. She had strict parents but her childhood was very...
Kenneth R. Williams [Annotator’s Note: a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter pilot in the 355th Fighter Group, 354th...
[Annotator’s Note: After being captured in North Africa by Germans and sent to Italy,] Olin Pickens boarded an...

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