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Scene from the Japanese Surrender Ceremony aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). "Admiral Nimitz arriving at surrender party...

Scene from the Japanese Surrender Ceremony aboard the USS Missouri (BB-63). "The flag Admiral Perry carried to Japan...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

Wesley Waggoner returned home and continued his military career. He spent time in the Navy reserves and trained with...

David Hanning says the goal of the program was to train interpreters to act as a translator between the American...

David Hanning was assigned as an assistant to a lieutenant and then to the headquarters of an adjutant general where he...

[Annotator's Note: Dale Smith served in the Navy aboard the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) and was at Kamakura,...

When the war ended, Wallace McKay was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], where he worked in a beach...

Willard Ashford [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 134th Naval Construction Battalion in Guam] was preparing to invade...

David Hanning retired after 32 years in the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses the...

Robert Brant and his ship made it to Kyushu, Japan after hitting a typhoon in the Pacific. Brant recalled having ill...

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