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Piazzo, Lincoln Reflections
On his way back home, Lincoln Piazzo was relieved to be leaving the scene of the war.
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Pickens, Olin Captured Again
[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and then escaping from prison camp] Olin Pickens followed a river into Czechoslovakia, arriving on Saturday
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Pickens, Olin Captured in North Africa
Olin Pickens sailed overseas and arrived at Oran, North Africa on 26 January 1943.
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Pickens, Olin Escape from POW Prison
[Annotator’s Note: After being captured in North Africa by Germans and sent to Italy,] Olin Pickens boarded an overcrowded boxcar where they remain
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Pickens, Olin Interrogated and Liberated
[Annotator’s Note: After being captured and escaping from a prisoner of war camp] Olin Pickens and a fellow prisoner, Honeycutt [Annotator’s Note:
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Pickens, Olin Mississippi Boy to Army Trainee
Olin Pickens was born in December 1921 near Dumas, Mississippi in the small village of Locum. His father worked as a barber and a blacksmith.
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Pickens, Olin Postwar and Reflections of the War
Olin Pickens dealt with nightmares for years after his time in captivity as a prisoner of war, often dreaming about vicious dogs and guns pointed a
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Pickens, Olin Returning Home
After being approved to go home [Annotator’s Note: following liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Germany], Olin Pickens boarded the USS Admir
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Pierce, Jack Life aboard ship
Jack Pierce had a good job offer on the West Coast. He tried to get discharged there, but they would not do it.
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Pierce, Jack Navy service
Jack Pierce went to boot camp for six weeks in San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California]. Then he went to L.A.
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Pierce, Jack Prewar life
Jack Pierce was born in 1921 and grew up near Kirbyville [Annotator’s Note: Kirbyville, Texas] in a sawmill town called Call.
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Pierce, Jack Reflections
Jack Pierce thought his experience in the war [Annotator's Note: World War 2] was good.