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After being wounded in Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] Kenneth Dwight Wells was taken to an airfield and...
Edward J. Cook was transferred to a Red Cross hospital ship somewhere in France. His arm was amputated because shrapnel...
The day the war ended, Robert Engel was in a town in Germany. The manure and urine from cows were kept in the town for...
Don Tallon [Annotator's Note: a liberated former prisoner of war in Magdeburg, Germany] saw of couple of his former...
Everything Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. learned as an officer in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of his life. [...
James Livaudais remembers some of the men in his company who were not exactly the best soldiers. One was named James...
In early September 1944, James Stewart Rosenbaum shipped out for the Pacific from San Diego [Annotator's Note: San...
In Warrenpoint, Ireland, Holly Reynolds always had more than one date. Reynolds saw a show in Washington DC called Back...
Interview begins with the interviewer stating that Senator Inouye is and always will be the most influential Japanese-...
They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] let some of the Red Cross packages go to pot. They would put them in store house...
They [Annotators Note: David Dennis and his fellow POWs] had been given their parcels [Annotators Note: Red Cross...
Finally a jeep showed up with a lieutenant in it who told them [Annotators Note: David Dennis and his fellow POWs] when...
Leonard Spivey notes that the Germans managed to get all of the prisoners out before the Russians came. All of the...
John Noack got the emergency radio set up. Noack had a little difficulty getting everything set up. Noack got seasick...
Leonard Spivey was at the airfield for a few days. They were at the airfield on V-E Day. All hell was breaking loose on...
They also knew through a radio set that they had that the Rhine River was under siege. They were aware that the...
John Noack’s navigator wrote a letter home in code. Noack was allowed to write two letters home per month. They were...
Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...
When Woods would go into Times Square young servicemen would give them trouble about why they weren't in the service....
Alexander Jefferson’s plane name was “Bubble Blue Subsoil” [Annotator’s Note: Jefferson became quiet and was lost in...
Leisey was sent to Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Hawaii] for surgery. They operated on his hand and back. It was a...
Tenney didn't feel that three rations of rice a day, at about four and a half ounces a ration, was good. He felt it was...
While Michael Doi was overseas his family and everyone he knew from Oxnard [Annotators Note: Oxnard, California] was...
They were told that they had to march about 60 miles [Annotator’s Note: as American prisoners of war in Poland]. Corbin...
Alexander Jefferson came in the middle of the Tuskegee program. The first program was March 1942 and the last class was...
[Annotators Note: David Dennis served as a radio operator in Company D, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st...
Galloway was able to write back home which was nice. Galloway's parents found out that he was in a POW camp because of...
They were warned by the American attaché to not attempt an escape from the jail [Annotator’s Note: in Spain] as he...
They were interrogated in Frankfurt. They were only supposed to tell them name, rank, and serial number. A German...
They had a point system [Annotator's Note: in regards to how soon 1 was discharged] depending on various factors like...
David Dennis was not there [Annotators Note: on a work detail from Stalag II-B] too long. He had a run in with one of...
Galloway was walking with his small band that was captured when they came to a hill. A German staff car pulled up and...
The Germans issued blankets to the POWs that were threadbare and worthless. Loevsky states that when the Germans knew...
After they got away Corbin was told by his adjutant about Colonel Waters [Annotator's Note: US Army General John K....
Brooks never once had any contact with the Red Cross. At 1 point they were each issued 1 item out of a Red Cross parcel...
A Red Cross truck passed the area where Candelaria and his fellow prisoners were being held. He spoke with the man in...

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