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Bert Schwarz

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Their meager rice ration was cut in half after nine men escaped. The American prisoners had survived the Bataan death march and were now laborers in Davao. A group was sent to build an airfield, but when a B-24 came and bombed it, they never worked again. They never ate again either, says Bert Schwarz. (7:25)

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The POW's had no food or water and now, in the hold of a cement freighter, they couldn't breathe either. In transit to yet more labor for the Japanese, liberation for Bert Schwarz came in the form of an American torpedo. With friends Gene Dale and Johnny Playter, he swam to shore where guerrilla leader Joaquin Macias welcomed them to freedom. (6:48)

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Returning to America after years as a POW in the Philippines, Bert Schwarz returned to the textile industry, then took a government position in Japan, where he was wooed to work for the most prestigious Japanese textile firm. He underwent a very substantial change in attitude about his former enemies. (3:29)

BG Richard Eaton

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Richard Eaton takes a Ranger company into the jungles of Vietnam to expose the positions of Vietcong supply tunnels. (4:21)

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Richard Eaton and other Airborne soldiers take a leisurely cruise across the Atlantic. (1:06)

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While attempting to find British forces in the area, Richard Eaton becomes second in command of a Ranger company during the push to retake Seoul for the second time. (7:35)

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Richard Eaton takes part in the confusing and dangerous Airborne drop over Southern France, a couple of months after the landings at Normandy. (3:05)

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While making his way into Northern France, Richard Eaton and a mixed company of Airborne troops take fire from German 88s in a nearby mountain range. (2:41)

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Richard Eaton faces death, the cold, and some heroism during the Battle of the Bulge. (9:50)

BG Robert L. Stewart

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After an Opie from Mayberry upbringing, Bob Stewart came out of ROTC to get an Army commission. He was already a pilot, so he had his eye on becoming one in the largest air force in the world. (4:40)