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When Kenneth Wieland arrived in Japan, he saw a bunch of American prisoners of war who were nothing but skin and bones...

Normand F. Gallichant was preparing to hit the beaches of Japan just before the war ended. Defenses in Japan would have...

Alfred Dearman says that Sugamo Prison [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] was the largest, most modern prison in Japan...

Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

When Marvin Martin heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

[Annotator's Note: Howard Warren Stokes served in the 27th Infantry Division. Soon after the war's end, he was sent...

Kenneth Weiland was assigned to the 866th Aviation Engineer Battalion attached to the 8th Army. He was in A Company....

Robert Lewter was inducted in Georgia. From there he got on a train to Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort...

Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

Richard Lafleur [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty with 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division] got acquainted...

In the summer of 1945, Robert Jarvis’ unit [Annotator’s Note: 534th Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, 4th Engineer...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Okinawa, Japan in July 1945.] There was a sign posted saying that they...

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