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Although George Gonos was starved and brutalized by his Japanese captors during more than three years in World War II, things could have been a lot worse for him.
"The Japanese had George working in a mine in Nagasaki when the second atomic bomb was dropped (on Aug. 9, 1945)," said his wife, Evelyn Gonos, who said the workplace spared him from the immediate effects of the blast or radioactive fallout.See the full content of this document
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Wwii Ordeal Never Vanquished North Huntingdon Veteran's Faith
George Gonos, of North Huntingdon, an Army veteran and retired carpenter and cabinet maker for Westinghouse Electric Corp., died Tuesday, ...
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