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Description 127-GW-244-135129: Freed British and Australian prisoners of war go aboard USS Thomas E. Gary (DE 326) after liberation by U.S. Marines on Formosa. Men are weak from malnutrition and must be helped on board, 1945. The POWs would then be transferred to USS Block Island (CVE 106) and USS Santee (CVE 29) off shore, September 6, 1945. (5/5/2015).
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