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Skaggs, Jack Repulsing the Japanese Navy
After the initial Japanese air attack, Jack Skaggs and a corporal were assigned to BC scope [Annotator's Note: military long range periscope b
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Skaggs, Jack Surrender of Wake Island
Jack Skaggs and his fellow Marines on Wake Island felt that they would be killed after capture.
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Skaggs, Jack VMF-211 in the Defense of Wake Island
Jack Skaggs was on Wake Island during the first Japanese bombing raids on the islands. The Marines had assigned VMF-211 to the defense of Wake.
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Skaggs, Jack Wake Island
Jack Skaggs was assigned to L Battery on Wilkes Island in the Wake Island atoll.
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Skardon, Ben Closing the Tuol Pocket at Bataan
When they were pulling into port in Luzon with 600 men aboard, Ben Skardon said that Lieutenant George Coburn, Skardon's senior officer and on
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Skardon, Ben Early Civilian and Military Life
Ben Skardon was born in July 1917 in St. Francisville, Louisiana, one of six children. His parents were from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Skardon, Ben Fukuoka #3 and the Hoten POW Camp
After 49 days and three ships, and enduring the most horror and terror and fear Ben Skardon had ever known, he was taken to Fukuoka #3 Camp.
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Skardon, Ben Health Issues
Ben Skardon has ten percent disability because of his feet, as a result of beri beri.
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Skardon, Ben Journey to Mainland Japan
Ben Skardon thought the prisoners would be taken back to Bilibid Prison and that the American troops were nearby or coming up.
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Skardon, Ben Liberation and Heading Home
Ben Skardon said there was scuttlebutt about an American bomb that had destroyed an entire Japanese city, but it was such a fantastic story, he did
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Skardon, Ben Prisoner at Cabanatuan
Ben Skardon was first incarcerated at Camp O'Donnell [Annotator's Note: former American military reservation on Luzon, Philippines], an i
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Skardon, Ben Recollections
Ben Skardon revisited the liberation of the Hoten Camp and the Russian occupation in that area of Manchuria.