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After 13 months in occupied Japan, Clark Wackerman was able to return home. The return home was much worse than the...

[Annotator's Note: Ittsei Nakagawa was in a factory in Hiroshima, Japan when the atomic bomb exploded over the city on...

On Easter morning, 1 April 1945, Andrew Petrus [Annotator's Note: with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment...

Curtis Winfred Wise had no trouble adjusting to civilian life. He did not use the G.I. Bill [Annotator's Note: the G.I...

Archibald Higgins was 17 years old when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese. He did not know where the location...

David Heath moved to San Diego [Annotator's Note: San Diego, California] and went aboard the USS President Jackson [...

Lloyd Guillory and the other new pilots were told that they would initially train in P-40s [Annotator's Note: Curtiss P...

During the second Truk raid Alexander Vraciu was on a morning hop escorting bombers when they were attacked by a group...

Andrew Leblanc was shipped to the Philippines. He lived in a pup tent [Annotator's Note: also called a shelter-half,...

They [Annotator's Note: the Japanese] called the officer over and told him that the war was over. About a half hour...

Wallace Spencer was in Sampson, New York [Annotator's Note: Naval Training Station Sampson in Sampson, New York] for a...

William Smith went back to college and it was the hardest thing he ever did. When arriving home after being overseas,...

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