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Elbert Dobbs

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As his unit advanced toward Munich and Dachau, Elbert Dobbs had to jump from a moving truck under machine gun fire. His friend, Kenneth Blanton was between him and the enemy and took the fatal bullets. Sent with an advance party into Munich, he was glad he did not see the horror of Dachau. (4:31)

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Most of the German civilians were very good to Elbert Dobbs as his unit rolled through town after town. Many times they came out to greet the Americans with food and drink. There was one particular burgermeister, though, who was not so friendly. (5:15)

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For Elbert Dobbs, the war's end meant a victory feast in Salzburg, Austria. It was so good, he never drank again. Somehow he had made sergeant without knowing why and then, after a stormy crossing, he had another feast. (5:15)

Eli Silverman

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Eli Silverman, a Navy corpsman in the 8th Beach Battalion, comes across a wounded Marine on Saipan yelling for help. He quickly realizes that the wounds are worse than he originally thought, and has never been able to forget the man's face. (0:45)

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Eli Silverman, a Navy corpsman in the 8th Beach Battalion, witnesses an explosion on a ship carrying Marines during the landing at enemy-held Saipan. The gruesome sites of this event are still with him to this day. (2:11)

Elizabeth Lowe

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Until the age of seven, Elizabeth Lowe lived in Hong Kong with her missionary parents. As war raged in China, her father sent the family to the Philippines to wait for the war to end. He was convinced the United States would not become engaged, but then Pearl Harbor happened and the Lowe family wound up in a Japanese prison camp for expatriates. (7:29)

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Hearing a loud commotion on the street corner nearby, eight year old civilian expatriate Elizabeth Lowe ran to see what was happening, and she will never forget the sight. It was the Bataan Death March and Japanese soldiers were beating and bayoneting the Allied prisoners as they staggered by. It was the most disturbing thing she witnessed during the war. (6:50)

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One of the worst things about the prison camp for Elizabeth Lowe's family was that they were split apart. The older boys in one building, the older girl in another and the young children and her mother in yet another. Fortunately, there was a doctor and medicine available when she was bitten by a rabid dog, but there was no medicine that could cure starvation. (4:13)

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The civilians in the Manila prison camp tried to keep up a normal life when possible. There was a makeshift school for the children, but there was no escaping the malnutrition and constant hunger. Elizabeth Lowe's adventurous sisters would scavenge scraps from the Japanese mess but it was still precious little. (4:22)

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The Japanese knew MacArthur was only a hundred miles away and advancing, so they made plans to execute all the men and boys in the prison camp at morning roll call. Elizabeth Lowe describes what happened when American volunteers streaked to the camp after the general was informed of that. (4:54)