Prisoner of war experience

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Church, Ray Segment 2
Church did not know what to expect when he surrendered. There was about 5000 troops with over 4500 backups. There were...
Tenney, Lester Segment 2
Tenney's first contact with the Japanese was on the morning of the 10th [Annotator’s Note: April 10, 1942] in a bivouac...
Corbin, Robert "Bob" Segment 2
They were taken into the pillbox and searched [Annotator’s Note: after being captured by Germans near Aachen in...
Carrington, James Segment 2
[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...
Billow, Harold Segment 2
Billow remembers going through France, Holland, and Luxemburg. The cities were destroyed by aerial bombardment. There...
Billow, Harold Segment 3
At the field hospital, Billow realized he was wounded in the foot. They loaded him on a train back to England. He spent...
Chuck, Harris Segment 3
Chuck was able to see his Ford Coupe being driven around the island by the Japanese from a window in the church they...
Sabol, Emil Segment 3
Stalag Luft was for airmen only. Luft is the German word for air. There were 8000 or 10000 of them there. There were...
Onesi, Anthony "Tony" Segment 3
Onesi and the other waist gunner were taken to a German hospital, he was wounded by a machine gun, but the Germans did...
Paluch, Theodore "Ted" Segment 3
The guys who captured them were about in their 30s.The SS men put them into the field. Eventually the SS men circled...
Church, Ray Segment 3
1 of the men working with Church was hard headed and clearly unhappy with their current predicament. When they were...
Tenney, Lester Segment 3
Those with dysentery didn't live very long. Dehydration, lack of food, lack of water, the sickness, it was awful....
Myers, Leroy Segment 3
They built the dugout for 3 people. They would run around and get food, and they would work all night. After...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 3
The 100th Battalion joined the 442nd in Italy and was their first battalion. After the battle of Bruyeres, they took...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 3
Galloway was with 3 individuals--a driver, a radio operator and a sergeant-- when they were caught by the Germans....
Corbin, Robert "Bob" Segment 3
They were taken across the Rhine River on a streetcar then put into an underground dungeon [Annotator’s Note: American...
Johnson, Oscar Segment 3
Fw190s [Annotator's Note: German Focke Wulf 190 interceptor aircraft] attacked the group the day Oscar Johnson was shot...
Carrington, James Segment 3
[Annotator’s Note: James Carrington enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1939 and spent two years in China...
Billow, Harold Segment 4
Billow recalls his friend Robert "Sketch" Marigg telling him about the incident. Sketch saw everything from a bush on...
Chuck, Harris Segment 4
Chuck states that the guys in the Japanese army at Osaka were pretty good guys. 1 of the Japanese soldiers was even a...
Onesi, Anthony "Tony" Segment 4
Onesi recalls his time in the prisoner of war (POW) camps. If they were not sergeants, they would have been better off...
Rogers, Ernest Segment 4
After the war started their NCO [Annotator's Note: non- commissioned officer] went to Pan Am station and brought back...
Brooks, Howard Segment 4
Brooks and the other sailor were loaded into the truck and taken to a small camp with other POWs. In the area were some...
Church, Ray Segment 4
The first name on the list leaving for the camp Tanagawa was Ray Church. McLean had arranged for this transfer as a way...
Tenney, Lester Segment 4
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...
Dennis, David Segment 4
David Dennis went with his unit to New York where they got on the Queen Mary. Teddy Roosevelt was the commander of the...
Baynham, James Segment 4
It was surprising to Baynham when his parachute opened. He could see a power line that he was being blown toward. He...
Myers, Leroy Segment 4
They loaded the back of their rig. They took the ballast off and put the goods in there so they did not go hungry. They...
Milosevich, Risto Segment 4
When they were in the prisoner of war camp in Serbia the Serbs would go out on work details. Milosevich was able to...
Kanaya, Jimmie Segment 4
When Executive Order 9066 [Annotator's Note: Executive Order 9066, or EO 9066 led the way for the internment of...
Galloway, Thomas Segment 4
When Galloway was captured and was allowed to talk to his men, he explained to them why he was in the house and why...
Corbin, Robert "Bob" Segment 4
They were told that they had to march about 60 miles [Annotator’s Note: as American prisoners of war in Poland]. Corbin...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 4
One of the pilots in Hanna's squadron was sent along with Hannas group to command the army enlisted men.On that day...
Jefferson, Alexander Segment 4
Alexander Jefferson came in the middle of the Tuskegee program. The first program was March 1942 and the last class was...
Johnson, Oscar Segment 4
Oscar Johnson was taken to Frankfurt after being held in Bonn for a short time. All he gave the enemy was his name,...
Gatewood, Joel Segment 4
Off in the distance they could hear dogs barking. They knew that they were being searched for. They were sitting around...

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