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Anthony Costa was sent to Osaka aboard a ship to work on the docks there. He was in a transport ship hold where he did...

John Elliott and his crew knew nothing about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima...

Sterling Baker was in the National Youth Administration and trained to be a carpenter. He was also in charge of the...

Harold Joslin was transported from Guam directly to Japan on the Argentina Maru. [Annotator's Note: Joslin had been...

Robert G. Aldous did not have nightmares early on. He has reoccurrences of some of the things he went through during...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

While at U. S. Navy boot camp, Clyde Jones was asked for his duty preference; he remembers asking to be an aerial...

Fiske Hanley II was held captive by Kempeitai [Annotator's Note: Kenpeitai, also called Kempeitai; military police arm...

After rejoining his unit [Annotator's Note: 869th Bombardment Squadron, 497th Bombardment Group, 21st Bomber Command,...

William Ebersole flew his first mission in May 1945. It was a dive-bombing mission to Chichi Jima which is where George...

The most wonderful story that Frank V. Tarkington [Annotator's Note: a radioman in the US Navy] can tell is that he was...

Most of Nick Cristiano's bombing missions started in the evening. He would call the meal before leaving "the last...

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