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94 YR OLD (PART 5) WW2 VETERAN 94 YR OLD (PART 5) WW2 VETERAN
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 579 seconds

Les Loken tells about his experiences in US occupied Japan after the war, in the early 50's.



94 YR OLD (PART 2) WW2 VETERAN 94 YR OLD (PART 2) WW2 VETERAN
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 538 seconds

94 year old WW2 vet, Les Loken, tells about his experience in the Pacific as a Colonel in the 13th Army Air Force. His memory also goes back further, to when he and his father went to meet his uncle returning from WW1, and before that when the first airplanes were a "miracle" in the sky.



94 YR OLD (Part 3) WW2 VETERAN 94 YR OLD (Part 3) WW2 VETERAN
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 592 seconds

Les Loken continues the story of his WW2 experience, as an advisor to Japan after the War, and his close friendship with a former Japanese commander who fought in the same Pacific arena where he fought during the war.



94 YR OLD (PART 4) WW2 VETERAN 94 YR OLD (PART 4) WW2 VETERAN
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 497 seconds

Les Loken continues the story of his enduring friendship with Namikawa, and his return to Japan in 2003 to see his old friend.



94 YR OLD (PART 1) WW2 VETERAN 94 YR OLD (PART 1) WW2 VETERAN
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 152 seconds

Les Loken, a 94 year old World War Two veteran (deceased Feb. 14, 2007) remembers what he was doing on December 7, 1941, when he first heard that Pearl Harbor was bombed.



CRUSTY WW2 VETS PLAYING CRIBBAGE CRUSTY WW2 VETS PLAYING CRIBBAGE
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 552 seconds

A feisty game of cribbage between Les Loken (94) and his WW2 buddy, Steve Troth (85), a retired Aussie ship captain. A few adventure tales, including one from Les' days as a transport ship commander.



94 YR OLD (PART 7) WW2 VETERAN 94 YR OLD (PART 7) WW2 VETERAN
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 478 seconds

Les Loken's experiences after the Stock Market Crash in 1929 (the beginning of the Great Depression.)



94 YR OLD (PART 10) WW2 VETERAN 94 YR OLD (PART 10) WW2 VETERAN
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 747 seconds

Gingeronymous gives an update on Les and shows clips of him in a 2002 interview. (Sorry about the stretched wide screen effect in the beginning...I didn't know how to fix it.)



MY THREE SONS (PART 2) MY THREE SONS (PART 2)
Posted by: Gingeronymous

Video duration: 806 seconds

Les Loken tells more about his son Jim's experience in Viet Nam, being seriously wounded there, and his problems with post traumatic stress disorder.