Courage in Captivity: Three POWs’ Stories
Special | 26m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Revisit stories from Bill Paty, Frank Padgett and Jerry Coffee during their times as POWs
Bill Paty, who served as Director of the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources, landed in German hands in Normandy, right before the D-Day Invasion. On the other side of the world, retired Associate Justice Judge Frank Padgett parachuted into enemy territory during World War II and was held prisoner for eight months by the Japanese military. Navy Captain Jerry Coffee spent 7 yrs. a POW.
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Long Story Short with Leslie Wilcox is a local public television program presented by PBS Hawai'i
Courage in Captivity: Three POWs’ Stories
Special | 26m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
Bill Paty, who served as Director of the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources, landed in German hands in Normandy, right before the D-Day Invasion. On the other side of the world, retired Associate Justice Judge Frank Padgett parachuted into enemy territory during World War II and was held prisoner for eight months by the Japanese military. Navy Captain Jerry Coffee spent 7 yrs. a POW.
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