Chapters of Life

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Archive for June, 2019

A Child’s Life–Interrupted by the Japanese Imperial Army

As a child growing up in the Philippine Islands, Robert A. Wheeler saw his normal childhood change drastically when the Imperial Japanese Air Force bombed Manila on December 8, 1941, the day after their planes destroyed United States battleships at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands. Bob, his younger brother, Albert, their American father and […]

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