I enlisted in the Air Corps, and I was doing what I wanted to do to help the country.

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I was just about ready to straighten up and start running when I hear, 'Up,' and I upped. So I was captured. I'm a prisoner of war.

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We were all so cold and hungry. What was it like? It was hell.

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It was, I'll bet you, 20 below. Nobody had hardly any clothes. ... Somebody had cut the legs off some long underwear, and I made a hat out of it.

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