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Portrait of Wesley L. Gonzales, dressed in dress blue service uniform, posed before a landscape. Likely in China. Circa...

Brooks group was moved to a permanent camp which was an old French Colonial army camp. It was a nice place and the food...

1 morning the prisoners were called out. They were usually called out every morning so the Japanese could do a head...

In the hospital they were treated very nice and given so much food that they couldn't eat it all. There was also...

Brooks was just past 20 years old when he first entered the Navy. When he came back home it was like coming back to...

Brooks was born on 30 October of 1919 in Greeneville, Tennessee. He recalls his childhood during the Great Depression....

They made several convoy trips to Port Darwin on the northern coast of Australia. The Japanese moved closer to their...

On the evening of 28 February [Annotator's Note: 28 February 1942] they left the area they had been fighting in and...

Brooks and the other sailor were loaded into the truck and taken to a small camp with other POWs. In the area were some...

The first place Brooks was taken to was a building. The men were fed once a day by the natives who brought them soup....

The Japanese kept the Americans and British in separate groups until they started working on the railroad.The food was...

The men got up before daylight and took their mess kits and lined up for some soup. Then they immediately lined up in...

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