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Struggle in the Pacific: John Coleman, withstander and survivor
After 81 years, it remains difficult to forget the atrocities committed by Japanese captors against American soldiers. The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, thrusted the United States into World War II with a sense of foreboding a long and bitter struggle in the Pacific. A young Collingsworth County army reserve officer, Captain John Scott Coleman Jr. (1902-2000), was on temporar...