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When the ceremony was over [Annotators Note: the Japanese surrender ceremony on 2 September 1945] the sky was filled...

After discharge, Windom Joseph Burton briefly used the G.I Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I. Bill, or Servicemen's...

Norman Hatch [Annotator's Note: a photographer in the 5th Marine Division] stopped in Saipan [Annotator's Note: Saipan...

Around D 7 [Annotator's Note: d-day, the initial day of the operation, plus seven days; 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan...

Mark Maynard witnessed a big celebration at the end of the war. Some men even drank torpedo fuel which contained...

Jacques Brewster Smith's company commander [Annotator's Note: of Company B, 2nd Battalion, 511th Parachute Infantry...

James Richard O'Rorke [Annotator's Note: a member of Signal Corps Aircraft Warning, 5th Interceptor Command,...

Merle Jerome "Jerry" Pettis was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1921. His family moved to Los Angeles [Annotator's Note...

In Formosa [Annotator's Note: present day Taiwan], Bruno S. Rinas worked in the sugar cane fields. He carried "honey...

Ray Eshelman did not take long to transition back to civilian life. He was looking forward to it. He did not miss the...

There was no homecoming reception in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], other than some high...

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