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Harold Leavitt
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Years Served: | 1941-1946 | ||||||||
Branch: | Army Air Corps | |||||||||
Unit: | 20th Air Force, 313th Bomb Wing, 505th Bomb Group, 483 Bomb Squad | |||||||||
Service Locations: | Pacific Theater (Tinian Island, Japan - Captured in Tokyo) | |||||||||
Highest Rank: | Technical Sergeant | |||||||||
Age Entered: | 21 | |||||||||
Age at Interview: | 83 (2006) | |||||||||
Place of Birth: | St. Louis, Mo. | |||||||||
Interviewer: | Sandra Arnold |
Audio Clips
- A premonition before flying our last mission
- Evacuating our plane
- I prayed often
- Japanese executed American POWs to make room for new prisoners
- Living conditions as a POW in Japanese custody
- Lowest point of my life
- My parents were notified of my repatriation via the radio
- Putting POWs on exhibition
- The importance of securing Iwo Jima
- We were starving
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